IMC TV ( tr, İMC TV) was a Turkish nationwide TV channel launched on 1 May 2011.Susae Elanchenny, Narod Maraşlıyan,
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and . In 2011 it hosted a talk show series called ''Gamurç // Köprü'' ("Bridge" in Armenian and Turkish) - the first of its kind in Turkey focussing exclusively on Armenian-Turkish relations. In March 2013 IMC hired Michelle Demishevich, Turkey's first transgender TV reporter. During the

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, a camera man for IMC was attacked with a tear gas cartridge fired directly at him, and IMC's Gökhan Biçici (editor of ''Emek Dünyası'') was beaten and detained. It was shut down under the emergency statutory decree issued in the

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of the 15 July failed coup d'état, alongside 11 other television and 11 radio stations, on 4 October 2016 when

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raided the television station's headquarters in

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