Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)[Xinhua: “Turkey’s State-Run Website Broadcasts in 30 Languages”]
Ankara, 20 Nov - Turkey’s state-run television and radio network TRT on Thursday began broadcasting news in 30 different languages on its website. The languages that the website www.trt-world.com uses include languages such as English, Turkish, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, Albanian, Azeri, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Persian, Georgian, Spanish, Greek, the Urdu and Tatar.
TRT set up its official website on May 1, 1999, broadcasting international, regional and national news in 11 languages to meet the expectations of its viewers in the digital age and provide the opportunities of technology to the public.
Live radio and television programmes are available on the internet to enable global users to have the access to the TRT’s services. Furthermore, the website includes important services such as breaking news from Turkey and the world, latest developments in economy and finance sectors, all branches of sports, weather forecast, radio and television programmes and promotions.
As Turkey’s first and only public broadcasting corporation, TRT was founded on May 1, 1964. It has nine radio channels and seven television channels.
(Source: Xinhua news agency, Beijing, in English 20 Nov 08 via BBC Monitoring)
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