ANKARA - First broadcast in Arabic was made on Tuesday within the scope of broadcasting in different languages and dialects used traditionally by Turkish citizens in their daily life.
The state-run TRT Television channel 3 broadcast the program in Arabic with Turkish subtitles at 10.30 a.m. and the program lasted about 30 minutes.
The program named ''Our Cultural Heritage'' and it will be broadcast every week day at 10.30 a.m. at TRT-3 with different languages and dialects.
Radio-1 also broadcast Arabic program at 06.10 a.m. today and it lasted 35 minutes.
Radio-1 and TRT-3 will broadcast programs in Bosnian on Mondays, Arabic on Tuesdays, Kirman on Wednesdays, Circassian in Thursdays and Zazaish on Fridays.
The previous and current government passed laws to adjust to the European Union (EU). These laws included Turkey's commitment to start broadcasting in different languages and dialects.
The EU attached great importance to broadcasting in different languages and dialects in Turkey since it wanted to see that Turkey was implementing EU adjustment laws.
(GC-AÖ) 08.06.2004