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Bern: Kurdish activists barge into Swiss
radio stations 24.9.2006
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GENEVA, September
23, -- Protestors forced their way into two local
radio stations in the Swiss capital Bern on Saturday
to protest against the deportation to Turkey of
Kurdish activist Erdogan Elmas.
Around 10 protestors entered the studios of German
language radio station DRS, suspending a banner on
the building and demanding their message be read out
on air. The station declined.
The protestors were calm and polite, Swiss news
agency ATS sub-editor Thomas Thomas Accola said.
Accola said he told the activists that their request
would be examined by the station's management next
week.
The militants then headed to the offices of local
Bern station RaBe, where they said they succeeded in
getting their message broadcast.
RaBe was unable immediately to confirm this.
On September 11, activists from the same group
occupied for 90 minutes the studios of Radio Energy
in Zurich and tried in vain to have their protest
aired.
AFP
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan".
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is
a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia
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