ANKARA: Turkey´s broadcasting watchdog has fined a TV station nearly one million lira ($266,000) over footage of young girls dancing in shorts in a talent competition after viewers complained of ?child abuse?, a board member said on Thursday. Citing moral dangers for the children, it penalised TV8 channel for footage in the ?Yetenek Sizsiniz? (?You Got Talent?) programme which showed a group of girls, aged from 7 to 11, who peformed in shorts and tank tops, the board member who did not want to be named told Reuters. The move by the Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) is likely to further anger government critics, who accuse President Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted ruling AK Party of trying to roll back secularism and civil rights for minorities, gay people and women.
01-05-2018, 09:27 AM
Turkey fines TV channel over girls in shorts in talent show
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