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Turkey: DTP poll shows Kurdish Roj TV most
popular
25.7.2006
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ANKARA, July 25 -
, The public survey initiated by the Yenişehir
Municipality of Kurdish city of Diyarbakir showed
that Kurdish "Roj TV", seen by Turkey as the
mouthpiece of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK), as the most popular television channel in the
region.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Yenisehir
Mayor from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party
(DTP) Firat Anli said the poll showed Roj TV was the
most popular channel, while the DTP mayors were
being prosecuted for writing a letter saying it
shouldn't be closed.
A prosecutor has demanded 15 years in prison for 56
DTP mayors who wrote to Denmark's prime minister
urging him to resist Turkish calls to ban the ROJ TV
station.
The mayors were charged after they sent a letter to
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, asking
him to keep the Roj TV station on the air in Denmark
despite claims from Turkey that it was a mouthpiece
for the PKK, the agency said.
The indictment accused the mayors of aiding and
abetting a terrorist organization. The PKK has been
listed by the European Union and the United States
as a terror group. The Kurdish conflict has claimed
more than 37,000 lives since 1984 when the PKK took
up arms for self-rule in the southeast. Anli said
the poll was carried out on 1,060 people from
neighborhoods within the Yenisehir Municipality.
Anli said Diyarbakir came 53rd in Turkey in the
University Entrance Examination (ÖSS) last year,
dropping to 59th this year.
He said Diyarbakir was in need of support from the
government on education, noting that the
municipality's resources were not enough to address
the issue.
Twenty-five percent said they were illiterate and 73
percent said only one person in their household
worked. Fırat said the questions were prepared in
Turkish, Kurdish and English.
He said 42 percent of those who participated in the
poll said their monthly income was between YTL 200
and YTL 300, with 14 percent saying their monthly
income was over YTL 1,000 and 21 percent said they
had come to Diyarbakir due to mandatory relocation
during the 1990s. Of them, 20 percent said they had
found it hard to adapt to urban life but eventually
had gotten use to it, but another 20 percent said
they would return to their villages if helped.
According to the poll, if there was an election
today, 56.3 percent would vote for DTP and 16
percent would vote for the ruling Justice and
Development Party (DTP).He said the poll's results
would be sent to the relevant ministries.
turkishdailynews com.tr
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