MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
‘Homophobic Fine’ Against Fox Life by RTÜK
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Fox Life
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2019
LAST UPDATED
14/11/2019
MEDIUM
Television
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Media Outlet
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Interferences by the Executive Power
The Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTUK)
Temporary suspension of broadcasting
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
The Law on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and Their Media Services
Art. 32/1

The Radio and Television Supreme Council has issued a broadcast suspension on Fox Life channel for the series “9-1-1,” on the ground of an “inappropriate footage of an old male couple that presents homosexuality as normal” which is against the national and spiritual values of the society, the general morality, and the principle of the protection of the family.