New technology from RTÜK, which clamped down on the opposition press

Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) continues its stance of imposing heavy sanctions on opposition media. While journalists are unfairly imprisoned, media organizations are subjected to trusteeship. In addition to all these, RTÜK imposes criminal sanctions on some opposition media organizations that report on the funding crisis and various other events on the agenda.

RTÜK's presentation brochure was distributed during the Ministry of Culture and Tourism budget discussions held in the Planning and Budget Commission of the Turkish Grand National Assembly recently. In the brochure, in addition to 'Broadcast Monitoring and Auditing Activities', the artificial intelligence monitoring program called 'VİA+', which had been on the agenda before, was explained.

In the brochure, it was stated that RTÜK examined approximately 300 thousand hours of radio and television broadcasts and evaluated 29 thousand 142 denunciations and complaints within the scope of its 2026 studies. The artificial intelligence named 'VIA+', which is being developed by RTÜK, will be able to convert more than 19 thousand 200 hours of audio content into text per day. The system, which will be able to analyze more than 300 million video frames, will be able to process approximately 12 terabytes of data. It is a matter of curiosity whether the application, which is claimed to detect 'negative content towards women and all segments of society', will further clamp down on the opposition media.