TRT ARABIC ON AIR

TRT Director-General Ibrahim Sahin said Sunday that TRT's new channel would enable Turkey and Arab countries to know each other directly and better.
Sahin said at a ceremony at Istanbul's Dolmabahce Palace marking the opening of the TRT Arabic that the TV channel would reach 350 million people throughout the Arab world through 3 satellites.
"The TRT Arabic will be on air for 24 hours a day. We will broadcast a range of programs from politics to sports, from movies to TV series. Istanbul-based channel will also broadcast live from Cairo, Beirut, Damascus and Ankara," he added.
Established on May 1, 1964, TRT Ankara Television started its first test-runs in 1968. TRT's second channel TRT-2 went on air in 1986. TRT's international channel TRT-INT started broadcasting in Europe in 1990. Last year, TRT began broadcasting in Kurdish.