MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
RTÜK imposes administrative fine on Halk TV (İki Yorum)
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Halk TV
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
31/03/2021
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

The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) imposed an administrative fine on Halk TV on the grounds that its broadcast was against the Law no. 6112 on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and their Media Services. The broadcaster was fined over Levent Gültekin’s “remarks about former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, who was respected by society” during the “İki Yorum” (Two comments) program. The other reason for the fine was that Merdan Yanardağ alleged on the same program that Ünal Osmanağaoğlu, who lost his life nearly seven years ago, was assigned as an executive at the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Congress and that the sub-band of the broadcast read, “Elected as an executive of the MHP today, Ünal Osmanağaoğlu is the murderer of Kemal Türkler” (March 31).