Turkey’s Acquaintance with Radio and Turkish Radio Telephone Corporation

This study is related to the first radio broadcast, beginning of the first regular radio broadcasts, and establishment and characteristics of TTTA？, namely, Turkish Radio Telephone Corporation. The details of the first radio broadcast in Turkey, and information and documents indicating that TTTA？ is entirely a domestic and national corporation are included in the study. The radio- related part in the history of Turkish media is as important as the characteristics and possessive structure of the first journal and the foundation and structure of TRT, the first television broadcasting institution. In this context, the references ,making a mention of how radio broadcasting began in Turkey, have been scanned, the information, obtained from these references and tested for accuracy, have been updated with the data from the articles published in recent years, books, and memory transfers, most of which have been supported or published by the TRT. Accordingly, contradictory information between references has been revealed and new determinations and definitions for Turkish radio have been attempted to be made. Unfortunately, there are a considerable amount of references, in which incorrect data about the beginning of Turkish radio history are included. This study aims to contribute to the literature in respect to prevent the recurrence of the relevant mistakes