Text and video content from the BBC Turkce (BBC Turkish) website – bbcturkce.com will now be directly available to the users of the Northern Cyprus-based online video news channel, kanalsim.com. Kanal SIM has changed its website’s video-only format to accommodate the BBC Turkce text stories.

Branded news from BBC Turkce, in video, photography and text, are now delivered directly to kanalsim.com, bringing the users of the news portal reports from the BBC Turkce home page as well as its Business, Press Review, Health, Life, Sport as well as Science and Technology indexes.All this content also will be published on the kanalsim.com mobile site.

Editor-in-Chief of Kanal SIM, Sami Ozuslu, said: “The cooperation between Kanal SIM and BBC is of a historical importance to the development of the Turkish Cypriot broadcasting scene.  News from the BBC will attract a new audience to our portal, and thanks to our collaboration, people of this divided island will have access to high-quality, independent news and information from the BBC.  This will help further raise the standard of Cyprus’s broadcasting sector.”

BBC Turkce is a digital, ‘social-first’ service for Turkish-speaking audiences.  With journalists in London and reporters in Turkey, a number of other European countries as well as the US, and underpinned by the BBC’s global newsgathering network, BBC Turkce offers an in-depth, balanced look at stories. BBC Turkce is a winner of a Press Freedom Award from the Turkish Journalists Association. BBC Turkce is part of the BBC World Service.