CNN Turk
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| TV station ( private law ) | |
| Program type | News channel |
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| Start of transmission | October 11, 1999 |
| Seat | Hürriyet Dünyası, 100. Yıl Mah., 2264. Sok. No.1, Bağcılar / Istanbul , Turkey |
| owner | Doğan Yayın Holding / Time Warner |
| Program director | Erdoğan Aktaş |
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CNN Türk is the Turkish version of the news channel CNN based in Istanbul . The Turkey-wide television program has been in existence since October 11, 1999. CNN Türk is owned by WarnerMedia and, since 2018, by the Erdogan- affiliated Demirören Holding . Programs include news broadcasts , political talk shows and documentaries . The station is often cited as a news source by international media.
Well-known moderators
The channel's best-known faces include the moderators Ahmet Hakan and the news presenters Hande Fırat , Başak Şengül and Nevşin Mengü. The overlaps with the daily newspapers Hürriyet and Posta as well as with the Doğan news agency are quite large; many authors and correspondents of these media can also often be seen on CNN Türk. CNN Türk also works closely with the channel Kanal D , also from Doğan.
Role in attempted coup
During the attempted coup on 15./16. July 2016 , the station played a crucial role. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was put through Facetime with the presenter Hande Fırat and called on the people to oppose the coup plotters on the street. According to general estimates, this contributed significantly to the suppression of the attempted coup. In the course of the night the station was occupied by putschist soldiers who cleared the building but were unable to stop broadcasting. The employees continued to broadcast on Facebook with their mobile phone cameras , while the broadcaster broadcast images of an empty studio for an hour.
Political pressure
In October 2015, the moderator Ahmet Hakan was beaten up for political reasons. Four men had followed him after his broadcast. In November 2015, lawyer and civil rights activist Tahir Elçi was shot dead by strangers in Diyarbakır. He had said on Hakan's talk show that the PKK was not a terrorist organization and that it had drawn the wrath of nationalists and the government.
criticism
When the protests around Gezi Park in Istanbul began in 2013 and the police took massive action against the demonstrators, CNN International broadcast live images from Taksim Square , while CNN Türk initially did not report on the protests, but instead a documentary about penguins following the planned program sent. Critics of the AKP government then established the expression “penguin media” as a term for the media controlled by the government.
After the journalist Erdoğan Aktaş, formerly editor-in-chief of the government-affiliated news channel A-Haber, took over the editor-in-chief of CNN Türk, six editors were dismissed and the broadcast of the presenter Mirgün Cabas, who is known to be critical of the AKP, was canceled. Critics attested the broadcaster and the entire media group that they had “come to terms” with the government.
In November 2016, the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party wrote an open letter to those in charge of CNN in the USA, complaining that their party was "systematically ignored" by CNN Turk.
On February 6, 2020, the largest opposition party, the CHP, officially called for a boycott of CNN Turk. The reason given for this was the station's "political loyal to the government", which had become stronger and stronger since the election campaign for the 2019 local elections . It was also announced that CHP politicians would no longer appear on any broadcasts in the future.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deniz Yücel : “The real coup is only just beginning” , Die Welt, July 16, 2016.
- ↑ Lorenz Maroldt : Erdogan's Facetime counterrevolution , Tagesspiegel, July 16, 2016.
- ↑ How online services caused the coup to fail , Berliner Zeitung, July 16, 2016.
- ↑ Christoph Seidler: How Erdogan benefited from the network ( page can no longer be accessed , 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. , Spiegel-Online, July 16, 2016.
- ↑ Deniz Yücel: "We can crush you like a fly" , Die Welt, October 2, 2015.
- ↑ Marco Kauffmann Bossart: Shot after peace roll call , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 30, 2015.
- ↑ Hakan Tanriverdi: Turkish Media and #Occupygezi: “The first to keep it silent” , Süddeutsche.de, June 3, 2013.
- ↑ Nuran Gülenç: Penguen medyası 'hakikat' peşinde! , Birgün, January 3, 2017.
- ↑ CNN Türk'te Mirgün Cabas depremi , Cumhuriyet, March 4, 2016.
- ↑ CNN Türk'te deprem: 6 ismin işine son verildi , Birgün, June 16, 2016
- ↑ Stefan Schocher: End of Parliamentarism , Kurier, November 7, 2016.
- ↑ HDP's letter to CNN , November 21, 2016.
- ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): CHP'nin boykot kararı resmen açıklandı | DW | 02/06/2020. Retrieved February 6, 2020 (tr-TR).
