Thursday, 27 June 2013

BBC: Please stop your partnership with biased NTV News in Turkey


BBC: Please stop your partnership with biased NTV News in Turkey

BBC: Please stop your partnership with biased NTV News in Turkey

    1. Ziad Dajani
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    2. Petition by
      Ziad Dajani
      London, United Kingdom
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June 2013

Victory

BBC suspends partnership with NTV! Thank you to the nearly 10,000 people who signed the petition and helped keep the pressure on the BBC. Thank you to the journalists from the BBC Turkish service who, by preparing the report on Gezi Park and press freedom (which NTV then blocked), demonstrated to the BBC's management what independence and impartiality really mean. Thank you to the Gezi protestors for revealing and protesting the biased agenda of the mainstream media in Turkey. For two weeks BBC management did nothing while NTV censored the protest outbreak, doctored images of protest banners and failed to interview protestors on screen. They stood by NTV and only acted when it would have been impossible not to. To help make sure that the suspension is permanent and to ensure the BBC investigates why they ended up supporting NTV for so long we will be submitting the petition to the BBC Trust as a formal complaint. Thanks again, and please continue to support the Gezi protestors.
- BBC, NTV ile olan ortaklığını fes etmeli.
- We call on the BBC to cancel its partnership with NTV in Turkey.
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WHY?
The BBC's relationship with NTV has become a joke:
1. NTV has now even censored the BBC's own news programme! It has refused to broadcast the BBC Turkce daily news on 14/6 because it included a report on Gezi Park and press freedom. This comes days after Peter Horrocks, Head of BBC Global News said: "the BBC sought and received assurances from NTV that BBC programming would continue to be broadcast in full and without interference."
2. NTV has shown blatant bias throughout the protests. The BBC's own coverage says NTV has "steered clear of covering the demonstrations" and is "loth to irritate the government because their owners' business interests at times rely on government support."
3. Even NTVhas admitted that its lack of coverage of the outbreak of large scale and unprecedented protests in the centre of Turkey’s largest city was in direct response to political pressure.
4. The BBC guidelines clearly state: "Any external relationship must not undermine the BBC’s core values of impartiality, editorial integrity, and independence."
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PLEASE SHARE / RETWEET!:
= BBC, NTV şimdi de seni sansürlüyor! Bu ortaklığı artık fes et! İmza kampanyasını paylaşın ve RT chn.ge/133Edar #gezi

=  BBC, NTV is censoring you now! Stop your partnership: Share / RT petition  chn.ge/133Edar #gezi
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News

  1. Reached 9,000 signatures

  2. 5000 signatures reached! Re-share and re-tweet to pressure BBC/NTV further

    Ziad Dajani
    by Ziad Dajani
    Petition organiser
    - İmza Kampanyası Katılın!: BBC, NTV ile olan ortaklığını askıya almalı chn.ge/133Edar
    - Sign petition: BBC - stop your partnership with biased NTV News in Turkey chn.ge/133Edar
  3. Reached 5,000 signatures

  4. BBC says NTV partnership under ongoing review

    Ziad Dajani
    by Ziad Dajani
    Petition organiser
    The BBC has stated that its partnership with NTV is "under review" in response to our petition that has now been signed by over 3500 people!
    This is still NOT good enough as the BBC has said that "at present" it has made the "difficult decision" that "it is better for our audiences that the BBC is broadcasting via NTV in Turkey than if it were not."
    NTV bias continues - help put further pressure on the BBC and NTV by tweeting and sharing these messages:
    - İmza Kampanyası Katılın!: BBC, NTV ile olan ortaklığını askıya almalı chn.ge/133Edar
    - Sign petition: BBC - stop your partnership with biased NTV News in Turkey chn.ge/133Edar
    We have asked the BBC for a further response.
    You can read:
    1. Email from Peter Horrocks (7/6/13), Head of BBC Global News (in English):http://goo.gl/CJrv9
    2. Response to the BBC (8/6/13): http://goo.gl/5Ykal
  5. Reached 3,000 signatures

Supporters

Reasons for signing

  • Esra Çetek ISTANBUL, TURKEY
    • 23 days ago
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    NTV TURKEY is no longer a reliable news channel. It's not independent and not dependent on journalism ethics.
  • irem ülgü ANKARA, TURKEY
    • 21 days ago
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    this reflects my people's right of getting objective news
  • Anıl ALKAN ANKARA, TURKEY
    • 20 days ago
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    Yandaş Medya İSTEMİYORUZ
  • Nathalie Pamir MERCER ISLAND, WA
    • 20 days ago
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    Being abroad and staying connected with one's country is a difficult task. Even more so in times where clean unbiased information matters. NTV deceived our family over the past 10 days where we had to resort other channels to capture what is going on in our home country.
  • Tugba Ozdil LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
    • 20 days ago
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    After drawing the attention of the protestors, NTV Turkey has publicly apologized for not covering the news. This alone proves that they are biased and they accept it. However, after the apology, the news are still censored and NTV has lost it's credibility.
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