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RTÜK fines Flash Haber
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Flash TV
CITY
İstanbul
LAST UPDATED
28/08/2024
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)
Program suspension
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
The Law on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and Their Media Services
Art. 8/1

Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) member İlhan Taşcı announced that RTÜK imposed a 3 percent administrative fine and three-time program suspension on Tele 1 and Flash Haber.
RTÜK held its regular weekly meeting and issued a fine over a remark by Merdan Yanardağ, who had said, “They destroyed the social state and secular education system. They established a corruption regime through foundations. Twenty-three years was a period of looting and profiteering. They created a conservative Islamist oligarchy.” Tele 1 was penalized for “humiliation” over Yanardağ’s statement. The Council fined Flash Haber for “contradicting national and spiritual values” over the answers given by theologian Cemil Kılıç to viewers’ questions about Islam in the program “Enlightenment with Cemil Kılıç.”
RTÜK also sanctioned Kafa Radyo, Yıldız En and Ekin Türk for not complying with commercial communication and advertising time rules (August 28th).