MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Broadcast suspension by RTÜK for YOL TV
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Yol TV
CITY
Ankara
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2017
LAST UPDATED
25/04/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Television
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Media Outlet
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Interferences by the Executive Power
The Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTUK)
Temporary suspension of broadcasting

Ankara 10th Administrative Court began to discuss the objection of Yol TV, where RTÜK stopped broadcasting on Türksat Satellite. Both the channel and the RTUK lawyers made a defense in the lawsuit filed for the channel to be broadcast again. Mahmut Akgül, the editor-in-chief of the channel, emphasized that Alevis were unlawfully subject to violation of their rights of broadcasting without any official notification (20 December 2017).