President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has that foreign media houses have deliberately ignored the nation’s bravery and instead symphatised with the PKK and Gulenist terrorists.
“After the July 15 failed coup attempt, foreign media has turned a blind eye to Turks’ bravery, and also symphatized with PKK and Gulenists terrorists,” he said, speaking in Ankara during the gala of Turkey’s first English-language channel TRT World.
Media representatives, lawmakers and celebrities gathered at the Turkish Presidential Complex to celebrate the official launch of TRT World.
TRT World is Turkey’s first international news platform. It is a branch of the Turkish Radio Television Cooperation public broadcaster.
“Turkey’s 52-year-old TRT has gained great importance with its new projects both in our country and in the world,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the reception.
Erdogan added that he believes TRT World “will become Turkey’s window opening to the world.”
“If the coup prevailed, the plotters would have shut down Turkey’s only English-language channel, hence silenced its voice to the world,” he said, adding that the coup soldiers targeted the channel during the attempt in an unsuccessful raid.
“What we’ve gone through after the July 15 coup attempt revealed the double standards and black propaganda targeting us,” he added.
“We have led the fiercest fight against Daesh and have been subjected to black propaganda by the West.”
“I believe TRT World will be Turkey’s window to the world,” Erdogan concluded.
State-run broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) officially launched TRT World late Tuesday.
The channel had launched its first test broadcast back in May, 2015 and on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 it held its official launching night at the Bestepe National Congress and Culture Center in Ankara.
