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TRT World is a Turkish state owned news channel which broadcasts in English 24 hours a day.
Press freedom and neutrality[edit]
The network has received criticism for failing to meet accepted
journalism ethics and standards for independence and objectivity, with some commentators especially in the West calling it a mouthpiece or propaganda arm of the
Erdoğan administration.
[12][13][14] TRT World has stated that it is financially and editorially independent from the Turkish government, and that its news gathering and reporting activities are just like those of other publicly-funded broadcasters around the world, with a mission to show a non-Turkish audience events from Turkey's viewpoint.
[15][16][14] However, according to
Reporters Without Borders, Turkey in 2020 ranked 154th out of 179 countries in
press freedom.
[17]
In March 2020, the United States Justice Department required TRT World's Washington operation to register as an agent of the Government of Turkey, engaged in political activities, under the anti-propaganda
Foreign Agents Registration Act. TRT World's arguments that it is independent were rejected by the US officials, who found that the Turkish government "exercises direction and control of TRT by regulation and oversight, and by controlling its leadership, budget, and content."
[16] Apart from some Russian and Chinese networks, other state-funded media including the Qatari-backed
Al Jazeera, British-backed
BBC News, French-backed
France 24 and German-backed
Deutsche Welle had not been determined to be foreign-government agents.
[18]
In a 2019
op-ed in
The Washington Post,
MEMRI's executive director
Steven Stalinsky surmised TRT World as "a propaganda arm of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's regime", similar to the Russian
RT News network. He notes that the channel offered only enthusiastically promotional coverage of the Turkish military's
Operation Peace Spring in Syria, while according to the
Committee to Protect Journalists, the government banned critical news coverage domestically. Stalinsky urges human rights activists, journalists, and others not to appear on and legitimize the network's shows, just as they would not appear on RT.
[13]
Following the
2016 Turkish coup attempt, some journalists who had recently joined the company resigned.
[19][20] One of those who resigned said: "I no longer hold out any hope that this channel will become what I wanted it to become (...) After the coup, it became very apparent that the channel had no intention of actually covering it properly, in a professional, international broadcast standard." The managing editor at the time said that he "never received a phone call from
Ankara trying to frame the broadcast or give them talking points."
[21]
More recently as of March 2020 with the
Evros border crisis, TRT World and other Turkish media have in a way, accelerated on producing
fake news as alleged by the Greek government, as was also mentioned by Prime Minister of
Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a
CNN interview twice,
[22] stating that the reports all come from Turkish media and other unknown sources aiming to discredit the
Hellenic Coast Guard and
Hellenic Armed Forces efforts with propaganda videos. TRT World claimed that Greece sent back refugee vessels to Turkish waters, which was denied by Greece.
[23] Even though, there have been reports by other sources of Greek coastal authorities forcing the refugee vessels back to Turkish side, in a military strategy dubbed "push back".
[24]