TRT launches new Web site
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Hurriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Kasım 21, 2008 00:00
ANKARA - The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, or TRT, launched its new multi-language Web site yesterday, a move that makes it the fifth most language diversified broadcasting service in the world.
State Minster Mehmet Aydın said it was appalling how little of Turkey, a country with a central geographical location, was known in the rest of the world, speaking at the inauguration ceremony for the Web site. "TRT’s new Web site will make Turkey known to the world correctly. We will not only watch the world but make a contribution to it," Aydın said.
The TRT Web site and Internet radio broadcast will provide news and information in 30 languages; Turkish, German, Arabic, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Mandarin, Dari, Farsi, French, Georgian, Croatian, English, Spanish, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Hungarian, Macedonian, Uzbek, Pashto, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Tatar, Turkmen, Urdu, Greek and Uyghur, reaching an international audience from Europe to Turkic populations of Central Asia.
Vice dean of the School of Communications at Istanbul’s Bilgi University, associate professor Aslı Tunç, said that demand for well-written and edited news on Turkish politics for foreigners was tremendous, speaking to Hürriyet Daily News yesterday.
"However, I keep my reservations about the content and I am very skeptical of its news coverage. The recent incidents about censorship, the way TRT is currently being run and the Islamization of the programming give me enough reasons for not being very enthusiastic," Tunç said.
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The trial period for the Web site was a major success, receiving half a million visits a day, Aydın said. TRT will freely share almost half a century television and seventy years of radio broadcasting archives on the internet, Aydın said.
"TRT is the symbol and voice of the official ideology that often contradicts with cultural diversity. So unfortunately this recent move of creating a multi-lingual Web site far from changes that fact," Tunç said.
The TRT Web site and Internet radio broadcast will provide news and information in 30 languages; Turkish, German, Arabic, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Mandarin, Dari, Farsi, French, Georgian, Croatian, English, Spanish, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Hungarian, Macedonian, Uzbek, Pashto, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Tatar, Turkmen, Urdu, Greek and Uyghur, reaching an international audience from Europe to Turkic populations of Central Asia.
Vice dean of the School of Communications at Istanbul’s Bilgi University, associate professor Aslı Tunç, said that demand for well-written and edited news on Turkish politics for foreigners was tremendous, speaking to Hürriyet Daily News yesterday.
"However, I keep my reservations about the content and I am very skeptical of its news coverage. The recent incidents about censorship, the way TRT is currently being run and the Islamization of the programming give me enough reasons for not being very enthusiastic," Tunç said.
Minister praises high scores
The trial period for the Web site was a major success, receiving half a million visits a day, Aydın said. TRT will freely share almost half a century television and seventy years of radio broadcasting archives on the internet, Aydın said.
"TRT is the symbol and voice of the official ideology that often contradicts with cultural diversity. So unfortunately this recent move of creating a multi-lingual Web site far from changes that fact," Tunç said.