AYPA

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AYPA
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TV station ( private law )
reception Spree Canal , special channel 10 of the Berlin cable network
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Start of transmission February 27, 1993
owner Ali Yildirim
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Ali Yildirim's press agency , AYPA for short , is a German-Turkish journalist duo . With AYPA-TV , it operated a small television station in Berlin between 1993 and 2007, whose programs were broadcast at fixed times via the Berlin cable network. These reported investigatively from the world of migrants in Germany. Research by AYPA led u. a. on the prohibition of the Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir or the newspaper Vakit . According to this, large TV stations in Germany and abroad used the station as a “renowned supplier” despite its production conditions, which were characterized by financial shortages. AYPA is also considered to be the supplier with the "most important findings about the Islamist scene in Germany" in recent years.

According to the entry in the Guinness Book of Records, AYPA-TV was the smallest television station in the world and was also treated as an independent television station for the Turkish minority in Germany in the specialist literature.

history

Since its foundation, AYPA has consisted solely of the graduate engineer and namesake Ali Yildirim and the Arabist Claudia Dantschke . The only program in the AYPA-TV program went on air for the first time on February 27, 1993 under the title “Berlin-Spiegel for all who want to be more tolerant”, fed via the Spree Canal . Since then, AYPA has broadcast its one-hour program (apart from an annual summer break) initially daily. The program shaped “detailed information, tolerance towards other cultures, commitment to German-Turkish coexistence in Berlin” ( Die Zeit ). In 1995, a broadcast of a Champions League game with Turkish participation on the German-Turkish broadcaster TD1 , which can be received via satellite throughout Germany, caused a nationwide sensation when AYPA researched that the broadcaster did not even have the broadcasting rights and so did the broadcast prevented. In addition, AYPA reports massively on Islamist forces in Germany. Financial problems, also caused by numerous (albeit always won) time-consuming and cost-intensive lawsuits, for example against the Islamic Federation of Berlin , which AYPA had alleged to have connections to Millî Görüş , which was monitored by the protection of the constitution , later led to a shortage of the TV offer to only several Days a week: In the first 10 years of broadcasting alone, AYPA-TV had to defend itself against a dozen injunctive relief. According to research that led to the ban on the radical Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir or the Vakit , however, AYPA images were sometimes seen in well-known news and political magazines of major broadcasters, "from Tagesschau and Tagesthemen to Panorama, Frontal 21 or Spiegel-TV". In 2006, AYPA had to supply almost all Turkish broadcasters with pictures of the founder of the Turkish New Democracy Movement, Cem Boyner , who was involved in a fight with left-wing extremists in Berlin. In German domestic intelligence reports AYPA TV was frequently mentioned as a source since the turn of the millennium. In addition to ongoing injunctions and other protracted legal disputes, the AYPA and its informants have faced “knife attacks, economic sanctions, attempts at intimidation and violent attacks” in response to reports in recent years. In January 2007 broadcasting was stopped. An extensive internet offer that has been built up in the meantime continues to exist.

Organizational form

AYPA is operated by its two employees independently of third parties, in particular the Turkish state and any Turkish institutions. The station was a “positive exception” within the Turkish media culture in Germany. Yildirim used equity capital for this purpose and also borrowed. Part of the program was also funded through advertising. AYPA was also independent of the Spreekanal, which provided broadcasting space; it is or was "organized as an independent sole proprietorship with its own license." Initially, AYPA was still supported by the editorial staff of the German editorial staff of the Turkish newspaper Milliyet , from whose office it was broadcast. From 1995 there was a support association founded by spectators that supported AYPA financially. However, advertising income and donations have always only covered “the bare minimum”.

Broadcast concept

AYPA broadcast in German and Turkish (the larger proportion is German, in contrast to other German-Turkish broadcasters) and mainly dealt with journalistic topics. The press flirted with the production conditions, which were marked by financial difficulties, and characterized the relevant reports, e.g. B. as "interference signal from the living room". The original idea of ​​the show was an investigative journalism from the immigrant scene in Berlin, which had not existed before in the form: "In 1992 (...) I saw here on television that researched articles on the Islamic and Islamist scene were hardly to be seen [ sic!]. And I actually wanted to research that with my colleague, and the viewers should get an idea for themselves (...) ”, Yildirim once described one of the motivations for founding the AYPA.

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  1. ↑ a b Gesundes Volksempfinden 2006 , Taz on October 7, 2006
  2. ↑ a b In the crosshairs of Islamism. The Berlin broadcaster Aypa TV. , Deutschlandradio on November 11, 2006
  3. ↑ Guinness Book of Records 2003, Guinness Verlag (2002)
  4. ↑ Ortrud Aumüller: Regulation and competition on the telecommunications and electricity market: a comparative analysis of the regulatory structures and market developments in the German telecommunications and electricity sector; Berlin 2006, p. 84f.
  5. ^ Bonfadelli / Moser: Media and Migration: Europe as a Multicultural Space? ; Wiesbaden 2007, p. 27
  6. ^ Geissler / Pöttker: mass media and the integration of ethnic minorities in Germany; Michigan 2005
  7. ↑ a b c Tobias Matern: AYPA-TV is the name of the smallest television station in the world, which has enemies like a big one; in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 11, 2002
  8. ↑ Tolerance as a program , Die Zeit 44/1995
  9. ↑ a b c d Susanne Balthasar: Interfering signals from the living room; in: Frankfurter Rundschau, August 19, 2002
  10. ↑ a b c "Free information is important" , Taz on September 18, 2006
  11. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.de
  12. ↑ Churches and universities as contacts for Islamist activists ( Memento from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsschutz-bw.de
  14. ↑ Today in the feature pages on October 7, 2006
  15. ↑ Islamism brochure, Federal Ministry of the Interior, pp. 118ff. ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmi.bund.de
  16. ↑ Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Landesmedienanstalten : Yearbook 2007: Directory of private television  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.alm.de   , P. 156
  17. ^ Turkish media culture in Germany: Documentation of a conference of the Evangelical Academy Loccum; Published by the Evangelical Academy Loccum, 2000
  18. ^ Integration programs on German television. Investigation of the intercultural information transfer in integration programs. ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www22.brinkster.com