Broadcast of İMC TV Shut Down

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İMC TV’s regie room was sealed today (October 4).

Coming to the channel building in the afternoon hours in large numbers, police and Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) officers sealed the channel’s regie room during the live broadcast and shut down the broadcast.

Channel staff protested the sealing with clappings and slogans “Free press cannot be silenced” on the live broadcast.

The Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions (DİSK) Press-Labor Chair and İMC TV News Coordinator Faruk Eren stated on his return from his solidarity visit to Hayatın Sesi TV that İMC TV’s broadcasting was shut down as well.

“This is the darkest incident of press history of this country. Many journalists were killed, newspaper buildings bombed, they were all dire incidents but silencing all dissidents at a whack is really a dire incident. It is worrying that crackdown on the press has been increasing each passing day”.

Starting its broadcasting on May 1, 2011, İMC TV was removed from TÜRKSAT, the national satellite, on Fenruary 26, 2016. It was sustaining its broadcast on Hotbird and Internet.

TV and radio channels are being shut down

Base of the decision is the decree no. 668 enacted right after the declaration of the OHAL.

Causing the shutting down of three news agencies, 16 TV and 23 radio channels, the decree enables new shutting downs by Minister approval.

Over 10 TV and radio channels were removed from TÜRKSAT, the national satellite, and that their broadcastings were shut down on September 28.

Yön Radio’s broadcasting was cut off on September 29 and İMC TV’s broadcasting was shut down on September 30. Access to the websites of Özgür Radio, İMC TV and Hayatın Sesi were blocked.

Med Nûçe TV’s broadcast through France-based Eutelsat satellite was shut down on October 3. (ÇT/TK)

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