Turkey is planning to ban popular television dating shows because they do not fit with Turkish traditions and customs, the deputy prime minister has said. Numan Kurtulmuş was referring to matchmaking reality shows, which are popular in Turkey but attract thousands of complaints every year. Turkey closes 20 TV and radio stations in post-coup clampdown Read more“We are working on this and we are coming to the end of it. Kurtulmuş described such programmes as counter to Turkey’s “customs, traditions, beliefs, the Turkish family structure and the culture of Anatolian lands”. In February, Turkish religious affairs agency Diyanet criticised matchmaking shows, saying they “exploited family values and desecrated the family institution by stepping on it with [their] feet”.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2017 15:45 UTC