Nothing can be said that reflects poorly upon the image of Islam and Muslims. In that way, Turkey and the Western establishment media have a great deal in common.
“Turkey’s Acik Radyo silenced as broadcast license revoked amid free speech concerns,” Reuters, October 17, 2024:
An Istanbul-based independent radio station has gone off air after Turkey’s radio and television watchdog canceled its terrestrial broadcast license, months after it was suspended over comments made by a guest on the genocide of Armenians.
“With its 30th broadcasting anniversary only a month away, this news has been the latest blow to freedom of speech and media in Turkey,” Acik Radyo (Open Radio) said in a written statement.
The station was suspended in May and fined after a guest, speaking on April 24, referred to the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide.
RTUK, the watchdog, said at the time that the radio station had made no attempt to correct the guest’s remarks, which constituted incitement to hatred and hostility.
Contesting figures
The station’s broadcast license was canceled on October 11 after a court lifted a stay of execution in September….
CommonSenseChris says
My family was slaughtered during The Great Christian Genocide in what is now Turkey. The only reason any of us survived is because my grandparents and some cousins knew how to swim and were able to climb aboard freighters in the harbor when they were driven into the ocean to drown.
Whenever I meet a Turkish person and share the story of millions of Assyrian, Greek and Armenian Christians being slaughtered, I’m always surprised that they know nothing of their own country’s history from just 100 years ago.
Erdogan needs to be deposed and freedom needs to return to the government of Turkey.
People deserve to know truth.
Mick says
Shi’ite Azeris and Sunni Kurds joined in.
Mick says
Russia and Persia were long time allies of Armemia..Russia abandoned A a year ago, maybe under pressure from.Turkey..Iran? My father worked with fine Armenian engineers in Khuzestan from 1939 to 1951..They helped keep BP going when British staff were cut off. One, (Jimmy Amraie?) made contact ca 1985.
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OLD GUY says
Erdogan is a dangerous and evil man and is destroying the country of Turkey.
James Lincoln says
Yes, OLD GUY.
A snake in a suit…
CommonSenseChris says
This sheds more light on the radio station: https://theasialive.com/acik-radyos-shutdown-sparks-outcry-in-turkey-we-cannot-be-silenced/2024/10/17