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Turkish Bureaucracy sucks the energy of
Kurdish radio
11.4.2006
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Sanliurfa's Medya FM has to make two employees
work 10 hours every day for the daily one-hour
program called "Center of Life" in the Kirmanchi
dialect of Kurdish. They prepare and present the
program, and prepare copies and transcripts for RTUK
and police
BIA, April 11 (Sanliurfa) - "Medya FM" (Media
FM) in Sanliurfa, which began broadcasting programs
in the Kirmanchi dialect of Kurdish on March 23 with
the permission of the Radio and Television Higher
Board (RTUK), is continuing Kurdish broadcasts under
difficult conditions.
The radio broadcasts Kurdish programs for a total of
five hours per week. The "Yasamin Merkezi" (The
Center of Life) aired at 6:00 p.m. every day,
consists of 15 minutes of news, 15 minutes of music
and half-an-hour of traditional culture.
Arisut: We would have liked to air quality programs
Mustafa Arisut, the general coordinator of the
radio, said they two employees work 10 hours a day
to prepare the program, present it and to fulfill
bureaucratic requirements.
To be able to broadcast in line with the Regulation
on Radio and Television Programs in Different
Languages and Dialects Turkish Citizens Use in Daily
Life, the two employees prepare the program until
6:00 p.m., present the program, and begin
translating the program into Turkish at 7:00 p.m.
Two people work 10 hours a day
The two radio employees, after finishing their
translations, prepare copies and transcripts of the
program to be sent to RTUK and the Broadcast
Monitoring Unit of the Police Security Station. The
weekly package is delivered to the authorities every
Monday.
Coordinator Arisut complained of not being able to
prepare quality programs because of the the efforts
spent to fulfill the bureaucratic requirements.
Since last month, the radio has been broadcasting
informative programs on Sanliurfa and a section of
the Risale-i Nur Kulliyat by Saidi Nursi in Kurdish.
The radio is planning to broadcast programs on the
villages in the surroundings and the healing plants
of the region.
Medya FM, which applied for permission to broadcast
programs in the Kirmanchi and Zaza dialects and
Arabic, could only get permission to broadcast in
Kirmanchi.
Conditions in the Regulation
"Gun TV" (Day TV) in Diyarbakir, which signed a
letter of commitment with RTUK, together with Medya
FM, broadcasts a culture and arts program called "Dergusa
Cande" (Besik of Culture) on Mondays and Thursdays.
"Soz TV" (Word TV) in Diyarbakir had also begun
Kirmanchi broadcasts at the same time.
According to the regulation on broadcasts in the
mother tongue, radios can broadcast programs in
different languages and dialects only for a total of
five hours a week. They are required to air the
Turkish version of the program. Televisions can only
broadcast programs in different languages and
dialects for a total of four hours and are required
to provide Turkish subtitles.
Certain conditions of the regulation, such as, the
requirement to conduct a "study on the languages
that are used in the region of the broadcast," the
fact that children's programs and programs aimed at
teaching the language are banned, and the fact that
programs are limited to news, music and traditional
culture, had drawn criticism.
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