Turkuvaz Efsane

At position 254 of 369, this is one of the stations in Türkiye that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

Turkuvaz Efsane streams at 64 kbps against Türkiye's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 64% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

The audio comes from trkvz-radyolar.ercdn.net, and 8 other stations in Türkiye are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Türkiye's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.