Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) penalised TV5 channel with 26 thousand TL fine due to broadcasting the expressions of a guest of show, “Kulis Ankara” on January 28, 2020 after the Elazığ earthquake. The guest had quoted the words of someone, who lost a family member in the earthquake.
The expressions were as following: “…for instance, a funeral owner told me when we went there for condolences. He said, ‘We have been waiting since last night, so that they will hand the body to us. They didn’t hand it in the morning, then in the afternoon, a public officer came and told us that the President will come for the evening prayer and that’s when we will hold the funeral, together with him at the evening prayer. The family member told me that he reacted against it, and said, ‘My funeral can’t be an element for your politics. I will take my funeral to my neighborhood. Our customs are fixed. I have to let the people he lived together with there bid farewell, then I can bury the body.”
22.10.2020
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