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BBC Turkce brings
Turkish history to life
Montenegro Audiovisual
Observatory Presidency
The BBC’s Turkish-language
service, BBC Turkce, is launching
The Archive Room
series of audio
interviews, filmed and presented
for a digital video platform.
Available on BBC Turkce’s
YouTube channel the 50-part
series, presented by Aylin Yazan,
brings to life some of the key
interviews broadcast by BBC
Turkce radio.
Co-produced by Cenk Erdil
and Aylin Yazan,
The Archive
Room
series launched in
November 2014 when BBC
Turkce marked its 75th
anniversary. Now a fully digital
service, BBC Turkce started radio
broadcasts in 1939. Up until 2011,
when BBC Turkce stopped
broadcasting by radio, the service
brought its audiences interviews
with leading figures in Turkish
politics, academia and culture,
whose conversations with the
BBC are available to the BBC
Turkce digital audiences, with a
new episode published every week.
Cenk Erdil says: “Over many
decades, guests of BBC Turkce –
politicians, journalists, artistes,
academics - witnessed social and
military upheavals, censorship
as well as success and development.
Some names are hardly
remembered while the voices of
others still excite, challenge, cause
controversy or inspire.
The Archive
Room
has surprises, revelations
and pure gems which we are keen
to share with Turkish-speaking
audiences around the world.”
The European Audiovisual
Observatory, the Council of
Europe’s audiovisual information
clearing house, will be under the
Presidency of Montenegro for
2015. Montenegro takes over
from Italy which held the
Presidency of the Strasbourg-
based Observatory in 2014.
Montenegro is represented
within the Observatory’s
Executive Council by Jadranka
Vojvodic, Deputy Director of the
Agency for Electronic Media, the
Montenegrin Regulatory
Authority. Vojvodic said that
Montenegro, as a recent member
of the Observatory, was “proud
to be presiding the first year of
the Observatory’s three year
action plan.” She added that her
organisation would be hosting a
public media conference with the
Observatory in Montenegro in
June of 2015.
Susanne Nikoltchev, the
Observatory’s Executive Director,
paid tribute to a “very lively”
Italian Presidency for 2014 and
looked forward to “constructive
cooperation on new initiatives”
with the Montenegrin
Presidency.
The European Audiovisual
Observatory covers the
audiovisual industries of its 40
member states as well as
producing pan-European
statistics and legal analysis. It
has a rotating Presidency which
changes annually and lasts from
January to December.
