Euronews TV in Turkish

Mavi Boncuk The Euronews TV channel will start broadcasting in Turkish as of January 30.

Turkish state-run TRT said in a statement on Friday that a ceremony would take place in Istanbul on Saturday for opening of the Turkish-language news channel. Lyon-based Euronews already broadcasts in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian for 24 hours a day. Founded in 1992 in Lyon as a European Broadcasting Union initiative, Euronews beams out into 293 million households in 150 countries by cable, satellite and terrestrial 24 hours a day with more than 400 staff from different nationalities.

Turkish-language news channel will go on air throughout the world through 34 satellites. Under an agreement signed in 2008, TRT became the fourth biggest partner of the Euronews with a 15.7 percent stake. Euronews has 21 share-holders including leading national TV channels from European countries. France has 25 percent, Italy 21 percent, Russia 19 percent and Switzerland 9 percent shares in the news channel.