Launched April 27, 1992 Country Turkey Broadcast area Europe | Picture format 16:9 (576i, SDTV) Language Turkish | |
Owned by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation | ||
TRT Türk is the international TV channel of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, 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 Caucasus and central Asia. 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 March 21, 2009 TRT Avaz replaced TRT Türk for Turkic countries.