Turkey

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TURKEY is located in eastern Europe.

Profile

Country Number (N/K) ? SECOND WAVE
Region Europe
Television commenced 1968
Colour System 15 March 1984 PAL
Language/s Turkish Dubbed


Television Stations / Channels

Turkey began its television service in 1968.

There is just one television station: Turkish Radio Television Corporation (TRT).

Colour transmissions commenced on 15 March 1984, using the PAL colour broadcast system.


DOCTOR WHO IN TURKEY

BBC Records

Turkey is not named in any of our main BBC Records sources.

The only reference to Turkey possibly screening Doctor Who was in DWM issue #52 (May 1981), in which a reader states: "Turkey has had the Doctor Who series for many years now but apparently the show goes out over there under the banner of "comedy"".

Given the 1981 publication date, and that colour broadcasts did not commence until 1984, any episodes of Doctor Who would have been in black and white, which probably rules out these being Tom Baker stories. (However, since early Tom Baker stories did air as black and white in Zimbabwe in 1980/81, it is not entirely impossible for Turkey to have aired Bakers rather than, say, Pertwees...)


Novelisations

Turkish novelisation

Remzi Kitabevi of Istanbul published seven of the early Hartnell, Troughton and Pertwee Target novelisations in 1975; these were released under the name "DOKTOR KIM":


Stories bought and broadcast

Transmission

JON PERTWEE?

TOM BAKER?

No airdates have been found.


TV listings

The English-language newspaper, Turkish Daily News, has TV listings for TRT; the majority of programmes are local or American.

Issues covering 1977 to June 1981 have been checked, but there were no listings for Doctor Who. Some listings for the 6.30 to 7.00pm timeslot merely state "Program for children", so it is possible that the series aired without being identified by its own billings.


Turkey in Doctor Who


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