TRT World

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TRT World
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Country Turkey
Broadcast areaWorldwide
Headquarters Ulus, Ankara, Turkey
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format 16:9
Ownership
Owner TRT
Sister channels
History
Launched18 May 2015
(test broadcast)
30 June 2015;9 years ago (2015-06-30)
Replaced TRT International
Links
Website www.trtworld.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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TRT World is a Turkish public broadcaster which broadcasts in English 24 hours a day and is operated by the TRT and based in the Ulus quarter of Ankara. It provides worldwide news and current affairs focusing on Turkey, Europe, Africa, and Western and Southern Asia. [1] In addition to its headquarters based in Ankara, TRT World has broadcasting centres and studios in Washington, D.C. and London. It is a member of the Association for International Broadcasting.

Contents

The network has received criticism for failing to meet accepted journalism ethics and standards for independence and objectivity, with some commentators especially in the West calling it state media [2] [3] or a propaganda arm of the Erdoğan administration. [4] [5] [6] TRT World claims that it is financially and editorially independent from the administration, and that its news gathering is just like those of other publicly funded broadcasters around the world, with a mission to show a non-Turkish audience events from Turkey's viewpoint. [7] [8] [9] According to Reporters Without Borders, Turkey in 2023 ranked 165th out of 180 countries in press freedom. [10] [7]

Programmes

In addition to those listed below, TRT World runs various once-off documentaries. Current programmes on the channel are:

Notable staff

Awards and nominations

In 2023 TRT World was awarded an international Emmy for its documentary on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [14]

In 2018 TRT World was nominated in five categories at the Drum Online Media Awards:

Press freedom and neutrality

In March 2020, the United States Justice Department required TRT World's Washington operation to register as an agent of the Government of Turkey, engaged in political activities, under the anti-propaganda Foreign Agents Registration Act. TRT World's argument that it is independent was rejected by US officials who found and claim that the Turkish government "exercises direction and control of TRT by regulation and oversight, and by controlling its leadership, budget, and content." [8] Apart from some Russian and Chinese networks, other state-funded media including the Qatari-backed Al Jazeera, British-backed BBC News, French-backed France 24 and German-backed Deutsche Welle had not been determined to be foreign-government agents. [16]

In a 2019 op-ed in The Washington Post , MEMRI's executive director Steven Stalinsky described TRT World as "a propaganda arm of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's regime", similar to the Russian RT network. He notes that the channel offered only enthusiastically promotional coverage of the Turkish military's Operation Peace Spring in Syria, while according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, the government banned critical news coverage domestically. Stalinsky urges human rights activists, journalists, and others not to appear on and legitimise the network's shows, just as they would not appear on RT. [17]

Following the 2016 Turkish coup attempt, some journalists who had recently joined the company resigned. [18] [19] One of those who resigned said: "I no longer hold out any hope that this channel will become what I wanted it to become (...) After the coup, it became very apparent that the channel had no intention of actually covering it properly, in a professional, international broadcast standard."[ citation needed ] The managing editor at the time said that he "never received a phone call from Ankara trying to frame the broadcast or give them talking points." [20]

More recently as of March 2020 with the Evros border crisis, TRT World and other Turkish media have in a way, accelerated on producing fake news as alleged by the Greek government, as was also mentioned by Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a CNN interview twice, [21] stating that the reports all come from Turkish media and other unknown sources aiming to discredit the Hellenic Coast Guard and Hellenic Armed Forces efforts with propaganda videos. TRT World claimed that Greece sent back refugee vessels to Turkish waters, which was denied by Greece. [22] Conversely, there have been reports by other sources of Greek coastal authorities forcing the refugee vessels back to Turkish side, in a military strategy dubbed "push back". [23]

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