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The last promise.. Kilicdaroglu pledges to no longer cost the Turkish League

May 27, 2023

Kılıçdaroğlu wrote on his Twitter account: “One of the first decrees I will sign after winning the elections is to guarantee that the matches will be broadcast on TRT without encryption, because they have stolen the nation’s small pleasures, and thus the nation will reconcile with TRT.” It will truly be the national channel.”

To implement this decision, the channel will have to buy the broadcasting rights of the clubs, which are currently owned by BN Sport, and according to the agreement between the Turkish Federation and BN Sport, the broadcasting rights have been purchased for a period of two years for 2.2 billion Turkish liras.

TRT’s revenue in 2022 amounted to around 10.9 billion Turkish liras, while its net profit recorded 2.4 billion Turkish liras in the same year.

Second turn

Turkish voters will vote on Sunday in the second round of the presidential election in Turkey, which will decide the race between Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in office since August 2014, and his opposition rival, Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

The president of Türkiye is in office for five years.

A referendum held in 2017 approved Erdogan’s proposal to expand the powers of the presidency, appoint the head of state as head of government and abolish the post of prime minister. As President of Turkey, he sets policies related to the economy, security and internal security. and international affairs.

In the first round, which took place on May 14, Erdogan won 49.5% of the vote, while Kılıçdaroğlu, candidate of a six-party opposition alliance, received the support of 44.9% of voters .

Nationalist candidate Sinan Ogan came third, with 5.2% support, to be disqualified.

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The Arab Desk leads The Eastern Herald's reporting on the Middle East and North Africa. The desk has covered the Gaza-Israel war since October 2023, the Iran-Israel war of 2025-2026, the fall of the Assad government in Syria, Hezbollah's political and military shifts in Lebanon, the war in Yemen, and the diplomatic realignment of the Gulf states under the Abraham Accords and the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.

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