Turkish prosecutors appoint government trustee to run pro-opposition Halk TV
The broadcaster’s live signal was cut as police searched the building and prosecutors opened a corruption probe involving 17 suspects, officials said.
- On Wednesday, police raided the Istanbul offices of pro-opposition broadcaster Halk TV, and a government trustee was appointed to run the channel as the live broadcast was cut off.
- Rights groups and Western countries have criticized President Tayyip Erdogan's government for deteriorating human rights and establishing tighter control over mainstream media through access bans, throttling, and fines on opposition outlets.
- Editor-in-Chief Suat Toktas tried to challenge the trustee delegation's head to continue broadcasting, but hundreds of police denied entry while conducting a search inside the building.
- Ozgur Ozel, chairman of the main opposition New Party, condemned the move on X, calling it a "dawn raid" and stating "only dictators would do such a thing."
- Authorities provided no immediate comment regarding the raid's justification, while Ozel further condemned the appointment as an act of "dictators" and "cowards.
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The Turkish police searched one of the few government-critical TV stations and stopped the ongoing broadcast of Halk TV. The opposition strongly criticized the action. Only recently a news website had been blocked.
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The Turkish police took control of the headquarters of the main private opposition channel, Halk TV, announced this last Wednesday. This police operation comes two weeks after the blocking of access to the independent news site T24 for reasons of " LGBT+ propaganda".
The control of Halk TV, the country's main private opposition channel, was entrusted to a public body and 11 people were arrested.
The Turkish police took control on Wednesday 14 October of the headquarters of the main private opposition channel and arrested eleven of its employees, the last avatar of a vast power campaign against media, political and associative circles in the country.
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