The Extent and Location of Public Advertising Remains Undisclosed: They Called It a "Secret" and Refused to Provide Any Information!
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The amount of advertising given to each television channel by state-owned banks has still not been disclosed. Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek shared the statement received from the state-owned banks in response. However, the state-owned banks declined to provide information, citing "bank and customer confidentiality."
Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek stated that organizations whose capital is more than half directly or indirectly owned by the state are subject to the audit of the Turkish Grand National Assembly and the Court of Accounts.
Which channels do state-owned banks prefer for advertising, when they don't give a single lira's worth of advertising to Halk TV, Türkiye's most-watched news channel? The question was posed to Minister Şimşek, who declined to comment, citing "bank and customer confidentiality."
The advertising and promotional expenditures of state-owned companies on television channels have been brought to the agenda of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Ziraat Bank, Halkbank, and VakıfBank stated that their advertising expenditures on a channel-by-channel basis cannot be disclosed under the Banking Law.
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