Radio and Television Supreme Council

Radio and Television Supreme Council
Agency overview
Formed16 May 1994
HeadquartersAnkara
Agency executive
  • Ebubekir Şahin
Websitertuk.gov.tr
Küçük Çamlıca TV Radio Tower in Istanbul

Radio and Television Supreme Council (Turkish: Radyo ve Televizyon Üst Kurulu),[1] also known in short as RTÜK, is the Turkish state agency for monitoring, regulating, and sanctioning radio and television broadcasts. RTÜK was founded in 1994 and is composed of nine members elected by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.[2] RTÜK is located in Ankara and maintains local offices in Istanbul, İzmir and Diyarbakir.

Telecommunications and information technology sectors fall under another state agency, the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK).

RTÜK has recently initiated the establishment of two international forums in the field of audio visual media services such as the Black Sea Broadcasting Regulatory Authorities Forum (BRAF) among 12 members of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) in 2009,[3] and the Islamic Countries Broadcasting Regulatory Authorities Forum (IBRAF), an affiliate of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), with its 57 member states, in 2011.[4]

  1. ^ RTÜK website Archived 2010-01-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ About the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) Archived 2010-10-26 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Black Sea Broadcasting Regulatory Authorities Forum
  4. ^ "Welcome to IBraf Official Site". Retrieved 21 August 2016.