At its weekly meeting on September 8, 2021, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) decided to impose three separate administrative fines on Tele 1 TV channel on the grounds of Merdan Yanardağ’s remarks about the RTÜK on “4 Soru 4 Cevap” (4 Questions 4 Answers) program; his use of “discriminatory remarks” in another part of the same program and “insults against the government, sports community and TRT”.