Open letter to the President of RTÜK

Mr. Ebubekir Şahin,

RTÜK President;

Dear RTÜK Members,

Subject:

TELE 1- MERDAN VOLTAGE - ALEVI

Dear Mr. President,

This time you want to blacken TELE 1, the honorable voice of our people, with the excuse that it "protects the Alevis."

So, you suddenly become an "Alevi lover",

Instead of making us sympathize with you, it makes us even more suspicious of the institution you lead.

Let me explain:

And the Alevis;

"Language to your trouble,

Voice to Your Lament,

"The Light That Shines on History"

We also know that you have fined TELE 1 many times for these reasons.

We also know that your signature is behind those punishments that hurt the Alevi community.

Let me remind you:

MERDAN VOLTAGE,

You fined him for making a program about the Syrian Alawite Genocide.

With that sentence, you gave courage to the murderers who ate Alevi liver in Syria...

Alevis never forget this...

VOLANG

You imposed penalties using as an excuse the disgusting fatwa that Idris Bitlisi issued for the Alevis, which paved the way for Yavuz’s Alevi Massacre, and which he explained to the people of our country, which millions heard for the first time on television.

What was that fatwa of oppression?

'Let the head of an Alevi be cut off, and let his wife, daughter, property and wealth be made halal'...

You fined Yanardağ for telling this truth to the society.

Alevis do not forget this either...

VOLANG

Using his stance and comments as an excuse against those who attacked Kılıçdaroğlu with "Alevi hatred"

You fined TELE 1...

Alevis do not forget this either.

Those penalties you imposed,

more than a publication,

It was also for the Alevi Community...

Dear Mr. President,

You hurt the Alevis...

You hurt me so much...

Now,

Again using the Alevis as an excuse;

Based on a declaration written by some Alevi Organizations;

this time with the pretense of "protecting" the Alevis;

again to TELE 1

You will again impose heavy penalties on Merdan Yanardağ...

You will kill several birds with one stone:

Will get rid of TELE 1;

The Brave Journalist will silence Yanardağ;

It will seem "cute" to the Alevis,

You will enter the palace's eye...

Are we Alevis supposed to believe this?

Is that so, Mr. President...?

That's not true, Mr. President...

Let me volunteer to advise you on why it is not and cannot be so:

First of all, you should know that I, the poor person who writes these lines, am someone who knows and feels the Alevi Community well and is their servant.

The person who published that declaration

I was one of the founders of those organizations, especially in Germany;

I am the Writer-Scenario-Director of the Alevi Community's major projects such as "The Song of the Thousand Years";

Know that I am the General Art Director of the world's largest art project, performing deyish and whirling with 1246 Baglamas and 700 Semahs on the same stage as "The Song of a Thousand Years"...

Just so you know, what I write has depth...

What I mean is,

I know the Alevis, I feel them.

I mean,

Alevis do not find it sincere that you suddenly became an "Alevi lover."

What I mean is;

The declaration of some Alevi organizations that you used as witnesses for sentencing does not represent the Alevis...

First of all, me,

It does not even represent me, who is the founder, director, and servant of many boards of those organizations...

I made my objection to that declaration.

I already wrote that I did not consent...

The overwhelming majority of Alevis do not consent to that declaration, just like me.

I mean;

Alevis,

I am already saying that they will not only not consent to you using that declaration as an excuse to punish TELE 1, but they will also be very opposed to it.

Yanardağ's comment on TELE 1:

"Just like every sect and nation, traitors can arise from among Alevis and among Alevis. The majority of Alevis are pure, honorable, and virtuous people..."

His words are not an insult to Alevis, and when viewed from a social sensitivity perspective, it is seen that they are an egalitarian and fair comment.

No belief, people, society or nation can be subject to other Societies.

has no superiority;

He stated that in every society there are good people and bad people;

Please know that Alevis also have the knowledge, education and experience to understand this in this way.

We, Alevis, look at societies like flowers:

"Every flower is beautiful.

One flower has no superiority over another.

Each flower has a different color and a different scent.

The garden of these different flowers would be magnificent.

It would be nice...

It becomes Gulistan.

It becomes a Garden of Peace."

The mystery in these lines,

Alevis long for Türkiye...

I invite you to analyze this Society deeply.

Because,

Those who are prejudiced against a society,

His prediction about that society would also be wrong...

Dear Mr. President,

The punishment you give to TELE 1 while pretending to protect the Alevis will only hurt us Alevis...

We object.

We resist...

Merdan Yanardağ's ideology is his own.

He is Life for us.

It is our value.

We will not stand by and watch you "hit us with the Stone of the Creek"...

Dear Mr. President,

We are people of a doctrine that "Rose is weighed against Rose".

"They hold scales made of roses

They weigh rose against rose..."

These wonderful words,

Turkmen, whom some people hate as Shah Ismail;

Our Shah Hatayi

we take to our hearts

It is a couplet of our Great Poet.

(The person who knows Shah Hatayi best and interprets him well is the Head of MIT, İbrahim Kalın.

Whether it complies with that philosophy is another matter.)

What I mean is this;

"The Alevi Mystery,

It is hidden in the poet's saying."

"There is a me inside me, inside me"

That "I" inside Big Yunus who says

It is Alevism, that's it...

I want to say again,

We have no confidence in the calibration of your Scales that weighed TELE 1 and Merdan Yanardağ...

We feel hope.

Trust and Trust

cannot be together...

Therefore, punishing TELE 1 based on the declaration of some Alevi organizations would also be a punishment for social peace.

Don't do it..

Although, after the President intervened by saying, "What is necessary will be done to those who insult our Alevi brothers",

I also know that it would be 'difficult' for you to act otherwise....

Besides,

I know the people who published that statement.

None of them have any intention of punishing TELE 1.

There is no.

I know they will also oppose the punishment...

Dear Mr. President,

If you black out TELE 1 with the excuse of "insulting Alevis", you cannot be convincing to society.

Behind

SÖZCÜ TV with the excuse of "insulting the Turks";

We wouldn't be surprised if you blacklisted HALK TV with the excuse that it "insulted the Kurds."

Dear President Ebubekir Bey,

Please take this letter as "BAZ" while evaluating the issue.

This letter of mine,

The Alevi Community also

I believe it has a voice and emotion.

Listen to this VOICE...

Respectfully...

Necati Sahin

September 17, 2025