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Recently Turkey pleased
Iran by yanking the Azeri opposition TV-station
GunAz-TV, which has been broadcasting through a
Turkish satellite[1].
Currently this private station, that’s based in the
American city Chicago is making propaganda against
Kurds.
Gunaz-TV, founded in April last year, announces on
its webpage that it will struggle against "Persian
chauvinism" and says it aims for a revival of the
Azeri national identity. Iranian officials asked
Ankara to close the station, for it’s “secessionist
propaganda.”
Despite that the channel is an opposition TV, it’s
denigrating Kurdish oppositional groups according to
anonymous sources. The channel frequently calls
Kurdish political parties and Kurds smugglers,
criminals, murderers and terrorists.
Relations between Kurds and Azeri’s have always been
tense. Even in the days of Kurdish and Azeri
autonomy, the relations between Kurds and Azeri’s
were tense.
This was a result of the high mixed Kurdish-Azeri
areas and fights about sovereignty over cities.
Several cities like Urmiye and Maako are inhabited
by Kurds and by Azeri’s. This is one of the reasons
why this station is making propaganda against the
Kurdish population in Eastern-Kurdistan and Southern
Azerbaijan.
After demonstrations of Kurds in “Kurdish cities”
the station was “inciting people’ against Kurdish
political organisations (Like Daykaya, PJAK, KDP-I
and Komala). After the demonstrations in Mako and
Urmiye, which were violently ended by Iran's
security forces, the presenter in a live talk show
said that the Kurdish opposition parties KDP-I and
Komala declared war against the Azerbaijani’s.
Callers even offended the deceased KDP-I leader
Qasemlou. The station showed a picture of a death
child that according to the TV-station was killed by
Kurds in Urmiye.
But the station is facing hard times. Several days
ago the announcer said they aren’t going to do live
shows any more and live telephone participation
isn’t allowed anymore. Last week Turkey dropped
their support for the “separatist” TV-station.
The future of Eastern-Kurds and Southern-Azeri’s
depends on the relations between the Azeri’s and
Kurds. If they can form a front versus the Iranian
regime, they can achieve more then ever. Otherwise
they will be beaten by the Persians again, which was
the fate of the former Azeri and Kurdish republic.
It’s the duty of the Kurdish opposition parties
Komala and KDP-I to provide independent balanced
television, that also gives attention to other
ethnic minorities, which are oppressed by the
Iranian regime. In this way freedom can be reached
in multi-ethnic Iran.
Notes:
[1] The New Anatolian “Turkey pleases Iran by
yanking Iranian opposition TV” 6th of April.
[2] Gunaz TV
http://vladimirkurdistan.blogspot.com/
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