TRT Türk is the international TV channel of the TRT, which is broadcast to other countries. TRT Türk's task is to enhance the understanding of the possibilities Turkey and Turkic republics may possess or take advantage of in various fields through the programs aiming at the

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and

Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

. The task is also promoting the image of Turkish people in a multi-dimensional way. TRT Türk has been intended to become the Turkic World's common channel. Within this framework the channel is planning to schedule programs produced by other Turkic republics along with joint-productions. TRT Türk is broadcasting comprise education, culture, drama, entertainment, music programs and news with commercial breaks. If required, commercials in the indigenous languages of the countries are allowed within the scope of transmission. TRT Türk is broadcast in modern Turkish language. Programmes can be broadcast with the addition of subtitles in foreign languages or different dialects of Turkish. Besides, various types of programs are listed systematically that are planned to be broadcast as reduplicated through the multi-language dubbing technique within the framework of DVB-S standards. On the 21 March 2009 TRT Avaz replaced TRT Türk for Turkic countries.

History

The channel started broadcasting on 28 February 1990 as TRT-INT. It started using the Eutelsat I-F4, leased by Türk Telekom to Dutch company PTT Telecom Netherlands. In October, the channel moved to the Eutelsat II-F3 satellite. A sub-service for Turkic-speaking countries in the former USSR (

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Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

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Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...

) started on 27 April 1992, as TRT Avrasya. TRT stopped broadcasting using Intelsat on 19 October 1994, moving to Türksat after that. On 5 November 1996, TRT-INT started broadcasting from the Türksat 1C satellite. On 25 July 1999, the channel started broadcasting to Asia and Oceania, using the Thaicom 3 and Optus B3 satellites. Later, on 7 June 2000, the channel started covering North America using Telstar-5. In addition to the television channel were radio stations Voice of Turkey and TRT-FM. Since its inception, the channel has had wide distribution in European countries where a sizable Turkish diaspora exists. By the early 2000s, its primary markets were

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, the

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, and, to a lesser extent,

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and

Macedonia Macedonia (, , , ), most commonly refers to: * North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia * Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity * Macedonia (Greece), a former administr ...

. On 8 May 2009, following the renaming of the old TRT Türk channel to TRT Avaz, TRT Int renamed, inheriting the name TRT Türk from the Turkic channel. For this end, the channel's new identity was presented with a special banquet at Çırağan Palace attended by prime minister

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician who is the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as the 25th prime minister of Turkey, prime minister from 2003 to 2014 as part of the Jus ...

. The relaunch night also featured live links to other locations around the world, including

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

, where the Turkish delegation for the then-upcoming 2009 Eurovision Song Contest was present."TRT Türk" yayında!
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Programmes

* Açık Şehir – Miraç Zeynep Özkartal * Bakış Açısı –

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* Ramazan Sofrası – Deniz Orhun

References

External links

TRT's Official Website

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