İbrahim Eren is the new Managing Director of the Turkish public broadcasting group TRT. The appointment of İbrahim Eren, TRT’s Deputy Director General since 2013, was published on July 10th in the official gazette, following the approval of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He thus becomes the 17th CEO in the history of the TRT. A …
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The American giant Netflix has contracted O3 Medya to produce an original series in Turkish. After creating its SVOD platform (subscription video on demand) in Turkey in mid-2016, Netflix is now starting to offer original Turkish-language content. The group has commissioned a 10-episode series from the Istanbul-based company O3 Medya, and this is scheduled to …
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The fourth Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary (BIFED), will take place in Bozcaada, a Turkish town and island south of the Dardanelles, from October 11th to 15th 2017. The festival encourages films about ecology, bringing together art and the problems of the environment. Films are divided into three categories: the international documentary competition, a …
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MUBI is a video-on-demand platform created 10 years ago by a young Turkish entrepreneur, Efe Çakarel. For €5.99 per month the platform makes available 30 films by well-known, unknown or forgotten film-makers – usually independent. Every day one film is added and another deleted. The target audience are cinephiles and connoisseurs. Among the films this …
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The Turkish government is considering banning reality TV shows which feature dating encounters. Numan Kurtulmus, the Deputy Prime Minister, said these broadcasts were not in keeping with Turkish customs, traditions and beliefs. Despite the popularity of these broadcasts, more than 10,000 complaints were registered by the Turkish Media Authority (RTÜK) in 2016. The Turkish Directorate …
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The Turkish channel TRT World, broadcasting international news in English, has expanded its catchment area thanks to an agreement signed with the private telecommunications operator SES. Transmitted from the SES group’s three Astra satellite positions, TRT World (a subsidiary of TRT, the Turkish public broadcaster) has been available since January in continental Europe, the United …
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With last year’s festival focused on Andean cinema, this year the Douarnenez Film Festival (Brittany) will turn its lens on the people of Turkey. From August 19th to 27th 150 films will be shown to explore “Turkey’s history and the present reality” and also “to highlight the shared influences, dialogue and ways of life.” Through …
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