Kanal 7: what Wikipedia removed

Kanal 7 is a Turkish television channel with documented links to Islamist political parties, including the ruling Justice and Development Party. Through 2015 the opening stated, “It is an Islamic/Islamist channel with links to Islamist parties including the current Justice and Development Party.” Today’s opening calls it only “a Turkish Free-to-air nationwide Islamic TV channel,” and the word islamist appears nowhere in the article. A reader arriving now does not learn that the channel has documented ties to Islamist political parties, including Turkey’s ruling party.

The word “islamist” appeared 2 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

Where this comes from

We saved this article’s opening paragraph at 4 moments between 2015 and 2025. Everything below is Wikipedia’s own text, quoted from those saved copies. The interactive version, with every snapshot side by side and each removal marked in place, is at ilroot.com/case/kanal-7.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

word	2015	2020	6 October 2023	2025
islamist	2	0	0	0

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

• The opening’s original identification line, reworded rather than removed in substance.
• The sentence describing the channel as Islamic/Islamist with links to Islamist parties including the ruling AKP, dropped from the opening entirely.

How it opened then, and now

2015 (revision 609314423):

Television channel Kanal 7 ( Template:Lang-en ) is a Turkish nationwide TV channel established in 1994. It is an Islamic/Islamist channel with links to Islamist parties including the current Justice and Development Party . It has a terrestrial broadcast licence and is available throughout Turkey, as well as via satellite. From 1995 to 1997 Ayşe Önal hosted a discussion show Minefield on Kanal 7 which brought together Jews, Armenians and Turks five days a week in a way not previously seen on Turkish television. ^ International Women’s Media Foundation , Fifteen Years of Courage: Ayse Onal

2025 (revision 1289146735):

Turkish nationwide TV channel Television channel Kanal 7 is a Turkish Free-to-air nationwide Islamic TV channel established and on 27 July 1994. It has a terrestrial broadcast licence, and it is also available throughout Turkey via satellite. It airs Indian, Pakistani and Korean dramas. The channel is popular for Indian shows in Turkey such as Bir Garip Ask . From 1995 to 1997 Ayşe Önal hosted a discussion show Minefield on Kanal 7 which brought Jews, Armenians and Turks together five days a week in a way not previously seen on Turkish television. ^ “Kanal 7” . ^ “Fifteen Years of Courage: Ayse Onal” . International Women’s Media Foundation . Archived from the original on 8 July 2012 . Retri…

Related

• The drift report: what changed across all 61,944 watched articles
• The case file for this article, with every snapshot and every marked removal
• Who made the cuts: removals grouped by the account that made them
• The live article on Wikipedia

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