Turkey’s WomanTV offers new voice on women’s issues
A new TV station is taking on femicide, glass ceilings and violence, as well as sharing success stories of women in Turkey.
A birthday cake is placed at the conference table at WomanTV, a three-month-old news station that provides in-depth coverage of women’s issues in Turkey. Men and women, mostly in their early 30s, wait for Duygu Ozel Tapan to get out of the studio so they can cut the cake that will mark the presenter’s birthday.
“It is a good team – we both work hard and enjoy working together,” Ahu Ozyurt, the editor-in-chief of WomanTV, told Al-Monitor. “We are around 60 people – men and women of all ages. It is a channel about women’s issues, but we have never intended it to be a women-only team. Our aim is to change the language of coverage on women – which seems to center around women as either victims of violence or happy consumers of cooking or fashion programs on TV.”
