MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Administrative fine on TELE 1 TV by RTÜK (5. Boyut)
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Tele 1
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
28/07/2021
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)
Administrative fine
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
The Law on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and Their Media Services
Art. 32/2

Over the remarks and allegations of Ahmet Saltık, a guest at the “5. Boyut” (5th Dimension) program aired on TELE 1 TV, about the health condition of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) concluded that TELE 1 violated the principles of broadcasting on the grounds that Saltık said President Erdoğan has some diseases without basing this allegation on an official document and the Parliamentary Speaker should ask him for a medical report. Accordingly, the RTÜK imposed an administrative fine on the channel on the upper limit (July 28).