Türkiye
Merhaba. Bu bizim hikâyemiz.
Forty per cent of every channel, by law. The clock started in 2019.
Access on this page: Signed: Turkish Sign Language — pending How this page is tested
Türkiye recognised Turkish Sign Language in 2005: Article 15 of Law No. 5378 on Persons with Disabilities, in force from 7 July 2005, charged the Turkish Language Association with building the TİD system, and a regulation of 14 April 2006 set out how — interpreters trained, teaching materials made, one language instead of many local practices. Then, on 11 October 2019, the broadcast regulator did what few regulators anywhere have done: it put every media service provider on a clock. Ten per cent of monthly airtime accessible within six months. Twenty-five per cent within two years, at least five per cent each in detailed subtitles, sign language and audio description. Forty per cent within five years, at least ten per cent each. The five years ran out in October 2024. The law is ours. The quota is ours. The delivery is what we build.
TİD video — this story, in our language
A named Turkish Deaf creator tells this page's story in Turkish Sign Language. The video is the page, and the text is its transcript's cousin. This video existing is the reason this page is allowed to exist.
Ten per cent in sign language, on every channel, is the law.
Now we make the ten per cent real — ourselves.
What do you want to do?
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I want access
Watch.Understand.Belong.
Television, film, and services — in Turkish Sign Language, captions, or audio description.
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I create access
Create.Get paid.Be seen.
Deaf signers, interpreters, captioners, audio describers — your work, your name, your income.
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I provide access
One API.Every screen.
Platforms, governments, cinemas, companies — deliver real access with one integration.
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I back access
Host.Sponsor.Invest.
The builders who will fill a ten per cent quota with real people signing — be part of the firsts.
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More than one of these can be yours. The access is for you, and you can be paid to help make it.
Access in Türkiye today
The law now says:
Turkish Sign Language is recognised and the State builds its system — Law No. 5378, Article 15, since 7 July 2005; regulation of 14 April 2006. Every media service provider must make at least forty per cent of its monthly airtime accessible — at least ten per cent each in detailed subtitles, sign language and audio description — five years from the regulation of 11 October 2019; that deadline passed in October 2024.
And we know the exhausting part: a quota is a number a regulator counts, not a face a Deaf viewer recognises. Ten per cent in sign language, across every channel in the country, is more signing than any interpreter pool in Türkiye can supply — which is exactly the point.
The quota is written and the deadline has passed. The delivery comes next — made by us. That is what ally is: Deaf and blind creators, paid to make the access — Turkish Sign Language, captions, audio description — delivered to any screen.
In plain words
The law is on your side. What is missing is the service — and that is what gets built here, with the community.
Why captions alone are not enough → Why sign language
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