Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council

The Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) unanimously has decided on the principle of "appropriate language" to prevent insulting and slanderous statements in sports broadcasts.

The U.S does not get to criticize Turkey's regulations while regulating the activities of foreign media organizations on American soil, Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun has said.

Some 44 percent of Turkish children aged 9 to 14 face cyberbullying on the internet, a new survey conducted by the Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) showed.

More than 600 internet broadcasting platforms have applied to the Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) to obtain permission and license after the watchdog was officially granted more authority to regulate and monitor sound and visual broadcasting shared on the internet on a regular basis.

The Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has officially been given the authority to regulate and monitor sound and visual broadcasting shared on the internet on a regular basis.

The Justice Ministry has sent a letter of complaint to the Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) regarding the still unaired television series “Avlu” (prison yard in Turkish), stating that the show depicted prison personnel as “torturers” and the prison as a “torture center.”

The Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) has decided to remove broadcaster Rudaw, which is affiliated to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, from its satellite broadcasting on the same day voting took place on an independence referendum in the KRG.

The council made the decision at an extraordinary meeting in the capital Ankara on Sept. 25. 

Those who are watching the below-the-belt shenanigans of the Gallagher family in the American series "Shameless" on Turkish TV channel CNBC-E have been missing out the actual below-the-belt shenanigans. The Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) have been making sure with its strict regulations and high penalties that self-censorship is intact on Turkish television.