Hayatın Sesi TV was a Turkish nationwide TV channel established in 2007.[1] It is one of the Turkish channels which gave extensive live coverage of the 2013 protests in Turkey;[2] one of its reporters, Ismail Afacan, was injured by a water cannon.[3]
| Country | Turkey |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Turkish |
| History | |
| Launched | 3 December 2007 |
| Closed | 29 September 2016 |
| Links | |
| Website | hayattv |
On 13 June 2013 the state media regulator RTÜK ordered Türksat to stop broadcasting Hayatın Sesi TV's signal, claiming it lacked a license. This followed a recent change in the rules requiring broadcasters to have an RTÜK license. It later acknowledged that Hayat had an open application for a license,[4][5] and cancelled the order to Turksat.[6]
It was shut down under the emergency statutory decree issued in the aftermath of the 15 July failed coup d'état, alongside 11 other television and 11 radio stations, on 29 September 2016 when police raided the television station's headquarters in Istanbul.[7][8][9]
References
edit- ^ Hurriyet, 13 June 2013, RTÜK'ten sürpriz kapatma kararı
- ^ evrensel.net, 3 June 2013, Hayat TV'nin kesintisiz yayını sürüyor
- ^ The Guardian, 6 June 2013, Press freedom groups condemn Turkish police violence against journalists
- ^ Mustafa Kara, 13 June 2013, An open letter from the Turkish Hayat TV, to be closed down because it broadcast Taksim Archived 14 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hurriyet Daily News, 13 June 2013, Turkey’s TV watchdog demands closure of Hayat TV, before acknowledging license application
- ^ Radikal, 14 June 2013, RTÜK, Hayat TV hakkındaki kapatma kararını geri çekti
- ^ Police raid TV station over ‘terror propaganda,’ cut broadcast
- ^ "İMC TV de kapatıldı" [IMC TV was also closed] (in Turkish). BBC World Service. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ "Turkey police shut down pro-Kurdish TV channel live on air". Gulf News. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.