Voice of Turkey

39°50′38″N 32°50′26″E / 39.8439°N 32.8406°E / 39.8439; 32.8406

Voice of Turkey
Ownership
OwnerTurkish Radio and Television Corporation
History
First air date
1937
Links
Websitewww.trt.net.tr

The Voice of Türkiye (short VOT; until 2022 Voice of Turkey; Turkish: Türkiye'nin Sesi Radyosu, TSR) is the international radio service of Turkish state broadcaster TRT on the internet, Turksat 3A satellite and shortwave. All shortwave broadcasts are transmitted from a single site near Emirler, Ankara Province (39°24′06″N 32°51′21″E / 39.4016°N 32.8558°E / 39.4016; 32.8558).

The interval signal of Voice of Turkey received in the UK on 15450 kHz in May 2013.

It is broadcast 24 hours a day in 35 languages, targeting both people of Turkish origin (TSR) and foreigners (VOT). Its schedule mainly includes news, music, educational and cultural programmes.

Its transmissions used to start with a piano tune in the hicaz makam.

Logos

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Foreign languages

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UTC VOT World VOT West VOT East
03:00 English Georgian Hungarian
03:30 Armenian Bosnian/Cro-
atian
/Serbian
04:00 music Russian Bosnian/Cro-
atian/Serbian
04:30 Dari
Pashto
Afghan Uzbek
05:00 Hausa Persian
05:30
06:00 Swahili Albanian Portuguese
06:30
07:00 German music Azerbaijani
07:30
08:00 Turkmen Macedonian Georgian
08:30 Italian Armenian Persian
09:00 Arabic Romanian
09:30 Kyrgyz
10:00 French Uyghur Tatar
10:30 Uzbek
11:00 Bulgarian Hungarian Chinese
11:30 German Bosnian/Cro-
atian/Serbian
12:00 Bosnian/Cro-
atian/Serbian
Urdu
12:30 English Albanian
13:00 Russian
13:30 Kazakh Bosnian/Cro-
atian/Serbian
14:00 Arabic Greek Spanish
14:30
UTC VOT World VOT West VOT East
15:00 Persian Armenian Dari
Pashto
Afghan Uzbek
15:30 Azerbaijani
16:00 Bulgarian
16:30 Spanish Tatar English
17:00 Hausa
17:30 German French
18:00 Arabic
18:30 English Russian
19:00 Portuguese
19:30 French Swahili
20:00 Spanish
20:30 English music
21:00 Bosnian/Cro-
atian/Serbian
21:30 Italian Greek Macedonian
22:00 English Russian
22:30 Arabic
23:00 German Chinese
23:30 Urdu
00:00 Portuguese Azerbaijani
00:30 Romanian
01:00 Spanish music Turkmen
01:00 Kazakh
02:00 Uyghur French Kyrgyz
02:30 Uzbek
* Summer 2024 schedule
* Italic: also on shortwave[1]
* In winter broadcasts are one hour later
   (01:00 UTC becomes 02:00 UTC etc.).

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