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The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's news service in Turkish, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e, marks 70 years of broadcasting on Friday 20 November with a special event looking at the future of news.

A multimedia co-production with the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's partner in Turkey, NTV, Future Of News is a televised debate co-presented by the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's David Eades and NTV's Banu GΓΌven.

The panel discussion, with invited audience, debates the effect on news of various global challenges, from new technologies to economic pressures.

The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ-NTV debate also questions whether there is a contradiction between the increasing power of the individual to use the internet for self-expression on the one hand, and the state's instinct to put this freedom under control on the other.

Recorded on Monday 16 November at an NTV studio in Istanbul, the televised debate also runs across the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e and NTV radio and online outputs.

It will also be available via the YouTube channel where ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e is launching its content in time for the anniversary at YouTube.com/bbcturkce.

Audiences are invited to text, email or Twitter their questions and comments to ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e and NTV.

Panellists include: Steve Herrmann, Editor, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ News website; John Owen, Professor of International Journalism and media consultant; Stewart Purvis, Partner, Content and Standards, Ofcom, the regulator for the UK communications industries; Sadeq Saba, Head, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Persian; Haluk Şahin, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer; and Ahmet Yeşıltepe, Editor-in-Chief, ntvmsnbc.com.

HΓΌseyin SΓΌkan, Head of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e, says: "When the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ began broadcasting in Turkish 70 years ago, the future of news seemed clear. But is it now?

"As we engage the panel and the audience in a conversation about the future of news, we ask if the traditional media will survive or if, to do so, they need to transform; if reputations will still matter in the emerging media markets or if chances of success are more or less the same for anyone.

"We also ask if regulators can shut off 'unwanted' new-media information flow – or if this information will find its way through all kinds of barriers.

"It's going to be an interesting discussion, and we are looking forward to engaging with our audience, whichever platform they are using to connect with us."

Launched on 20 November 1939, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e has established itself among Turkish-speaking audiences as a trusted and respected news service, placing events and developments in Turkey and the region in the global context.

Today, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e has evolved into a multimedia operation, offering news, information and analysis on radio, online, mobile phones – and television, with DΓΌnya GΓΌndemi, the news and current-affairs programme broadcast by NTV.

Alongside the radio and online partnership with NTV, the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e online news content on bbcturkce.com is also available on the Hurriyet and Haberturk websites.

Notes to Editors

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e is a multimedia service which offers its audiences news, information, reviews and analysis, placing events and developments in Turkey and the region in the global context.

The radio programmes are broadcast nationally in Turkey at 07.00 and 18.00 Turkish Time on weekdays, 18.00 on Saturdays, and 11.00 and 18.00 on Sundays via the partner NTV Radyo.

The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e TV news and current-affairs programme, DΓΌnya GΓΌndemi, features three times a week on the NTV news channel.

The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e website, bbcturkce.com, offers news and analysis in text, audio and video, and can be accessed via mobile phones and via a range of partner websites.

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TurkΓ§e is part of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service, an international multimedia broadcaster delivering 32 language and regional services.

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service uses multiple platforms to reach its weekly audience of 188 million globally, including shortwave, AM, FM, digital satellite and cable channels. It has around 2,000 partner radio stations which take ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ content, and numerous partnerships supplying content to mobile phones and other wireless handheld devices.

Its news sites include audio and video content and offer opportunities to join the global debate. For more information, visit bbcworldservice.com. For a weekly alert about ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service programmes, sign up for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Agenda e-guide at bbcworldservice.com/eguide.

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