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Turkey calls for closure of Denmark-based
Kurdish TV channel
1.4.2006
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ANKARA, March 31,
2006 (AFP) - 18h54 - Turkey Friday repeated its call
for Denmark to close down a Danish-based Kurdish
television channel which it considers a mouthpiece
for violent Kurdish separatists.
"I spoke by telephone with my Danish counterpart
today and asked him to do the necessary in respect
of this channel," Foreign Ministry Abdullah Gul told
Turkish television.
Ankara accuses Roj TV, which has broadcast from
Denmark since March 2004, of bearing some
responsibility for this week's riots in southeastern
Turkey which have cost seven lives by screening
messages from the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK).
"Denmark must face up to its responsibilties... it
is not a matter of democracy and press freedom," Gul
said, adding that he welcomed the reaction of the
Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller who said he
"understood" Ankara's concerns but did not commit to
any action.
Both Turkey and the United States have previously
called for the closure of the station on the grounds
that it has ties to the PKK, considered a terrorist
organisation by the European Union and the United
States.
Since the PKK began its campaign for self-government
in the chiefly Kurdish southeast of Turkey in 1984,
more than 37,000 people have been killed.
AFP
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