Turkey’s TRT bans Winnie the Pooh’s best friend from TV screen
June 18th, 2006, 11:26 UTC by Andy
Turkish state broadcaster TRT has decided not to broadcast the cartoon series Winnie the Pooh because the best friend of Winnie is Piglet. Within Islam, the pig is considered an unclean animal. Programme planners at TRT discussed whether they could edit out Piglet, but decided against it because the character appears so frequently. Observers believe that this TRT decision shows that the broadcaster is beginning to move towards more Islamic programming. Turkey’s population is predominantly Islamic, but the country has a secular system. However, the current Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is the leader of the conservative religious Justice and Development Party party.
(Source: ANP via Media Network weblog) |