Text of report in English by Turkish privately-owned, mass-circulation daily Hurriyet website on 19 March
Turkey’s state-run TV will launch a channel to air in the Arabic language in the near future, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said late on Wednesday.
Preparations for a TV channel in Arabic are about to be completed, and the TV channel, under the auspices of the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), could start broadcasting at any time, Erdogan told broadcaster TGRT Haber. He also told the news channel that TRT would launch a radio station broadcasting in Kurdish.
Turkey recently took steps to boost the cultural and democratic rights of Kurds with the 1 January launch of TRT-6, a TV channel that airs in Kurdish 24 hours a day.
(Source: Hurriyet website, Istanbul, in English 19 Mar 09 via BBC Monitoring)
on Feb 22nd, 2010 at 20:15
it would be great to have programmes bout turkey in arabic we cannot speak or understand turkish so why not a channel in arabic we are all muslims and we want to learn about their culture
on Mar 12th, 2010 at 16:19
when will the channel start?
on Mar 12th, 2010 at 16:29
It was due to launch on 21 February, but I have not seen any confirmation of that. It is aparently known as TRT-7, and isn’t mentioned yet on TRT’s website. But it may be testing. It is supposed to be on Nilesat. Does anyone have more information?
on Mar 19th, 2010 at 20:14
only almighty god know when it will start we are still waiting
on Mar 25th, 2010 at 15:04
finally confirmed it is to be launched on the 4th of april on both arabsat and nilesat
on Apr 3rd, 2010 at 20:14
It\’s a good thing, to help bring Turkish an Arab people closer together.
on Apr 4th, 2010 at 11:03
that will be great, i hope we can receive it in west europe
on May 31st, 2010 at 16:57
it is agreat thing to have this media arabs and turkeys are realy brothers
they have a long common history and the same social and riligen culture
and this day we became more in need for political coperation in ourrigion
i advise both of us to learn teir languages .. turkish language is very
beutifull and easy to learn I my sell iam studiyig it by my self .
it gives me nice feelings if i talk with the turkey by his mother language
in this way we can cancile the boarders between us
on Oct 20th, 2010 at 09:42
I would like to know if this tv has an email coz I want to send a cv to it.
Thx
on Jan 30th, 2011 at 14:26
It will be agood thing about a media in other languges from Turkey I know alot of people they watch dramas were from turkey so it will be agreat to have it on arabic languge.
thanx turkish media peace out