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TELE2 News terminated its broadcasts by failing to pay the license fee requested by RTÜK. RTÜK demanded a total of 2 million lira for two licenses.
TELE2 programmer Murat Taylan announced in his statement that they could not afford the license fee requested by RTÜK due to economic conditions and that they had terminated the broadcasts.
Taylan said the following
"We cannot establish a television channel. Shortly after RTÜK TELE2 News started broadcasting, it asked us for two licenses. The license request that RTÜK put before us is 2 million liras. Since the economic conditions we are in necessitate a downsizing even within ourselves, let alone giving 2 million to RTÜK, we decided to terminate our broadcasts under the name of TELE2 News because we have reached the end of the period legally requested from us and we cannot pay the requested license fee."
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