{"id":3284,"date":"2012-04-11T09:21:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T13:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=3284"},"modified":"2012-04-11T09:21:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T13:21:58","slug":"china-radio-international-increasing-turkish-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/china-radio-international-increasing-turkish-content\/","title":{"rendered":"China Radio International increasing Turkish content"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>(Source: Today’s Zaman<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve sometimes been challenged trying to find exactly the right word to translate from Turkish into Chinese,\u201d recalled Wenjun Liu, a 37-year-old reporter working at the Turkish Broadcast Service of China Radio International (CRI) in Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u00a0\u201cThank God, we have Turkish native speakers working here to rush to our aid,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Like many Chinese nationals who were assigned to work at the Turkish service, Liu has assumed a Turkish name for herself — \u201cDamla.\u201d She works at the world news desk and was working on a story about Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an\u2019s visit to Iran in late March. Like many of her colleagues, Damla is a graduate of Beijing Foreign Studies University, a foreign language and international studies university in China.<\/p>\n

CRI has been broadcasting in Turkish since October 1957 using the shortwave frequency. It has a one-hour-long program every day, repeated four times during the day in different time slots. It uses Internet broadband to spread the word and has also used local FM stations in ?stanbul and Ankara to reach its audience since 2010. With unprecedented growing ties recently with Turkey, China is set to promote its culture in many areas, including broadcasting more Turkish content on the CRI.<\/p>\n

Yongmin Xia, the director of the Turkish service, revealed to Sunday\u2019s Zaman that the CRI has decided to boost its presence in Turkey. Going by the Turkish name Murat, Xia said the CRI has chosen ?stanbul, the largest city in Turkey, to launch a radio station. \u201cWe are going to start with five people and hope to reach 15 in this service in ?stanbul,\u201d he said, adding that the stronger presence would help develop bilateral relations further.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur common values are more than the differences between the Turkish and Chinese peoples,\u201d he emphasized, pointing to a strong adherence to traditional values in both cultures. \u201cTurks and Chinese share similar traits such as hospitality and warmth in human relations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

There is no easy way to rate how popular the Turkish service at the CRI is since it airs in shortwave, but the managers at the CRI say they have some idea by looking at regular mail, e-mails and website impressions. \u201cOur Turkish website has 600,000 clicks on a monthly basis,\u201d Xia explained. Overall, the CRI received more than 3 million letters from overseas listeners in 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Though CRI has an\u00a0enormous broadcasting presence around the globe (and it keeps growing),\u00a0I would certainly question the listenership numbers based on the methods they use to\u00a0quantify\u00a0them. If by 600,000 monthly website “clicks,” they mean “hits,” their numbers may be overly generous. Many of “hits” are associated with search engine and other bots that routinely crawl the web. A more telling number would be either web page views or unique visitors.<\/p>\n

Frankly, the 3 million letters from overseas listeners is also hard to believe, though I do imagine they receive a hefty amount of correspondence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Today’s Zaman) \u201cI\u2019ve sometimes been challenged trying to find exactly the right word to translate from Turkish into Chinese,\u201d recalled Wenjun Liu, a 37-year-old reporter working at the Turkish Broadcast Service of China Radio International (CRI) in Beijing. \u00a0\u201cThank God, we have Turkish native speakers working here to rush to our aid,\u201d she added. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[141,429,1058,635,242,4082,1059],"class_list":["post-3284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-china-radio-international","tag-cri","tag-cri-turkey","tag-shortwave-broadcasters","tag-shortwave-broadcasting","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-QY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6623,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-gezi-park-protests-dont-look-to-the-voice-of-turkey-for-information\/","url_meta":{"origin":3284,"position":0},"title":"The Gezi Park Protests: don’t look to the Voice of Turkey for information","author":"Thomas","date":"June 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"On shortwave, sometimes it's what's not heard that speaks volumes. 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