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Iranian police confiscated thousands of
satellite antennas for watching Kurdish Roj TV
22.5.2007
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Iran
introduces measures against Kurdish Roj TV,
confiscates satellite antennas
May
22, 2007
Iranian-Kurdistan, -- Iran has carried out an
operation aimed at Kurdish station ROJ TV, according
to Turkish authorities they are "supporter of the
outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)", with all
those having a satellite antenna enabling them to
watch the channel, which broadcasts out of Denmark,
facing a fine or even imprisonment.
In news reported on the Firatnews Web site, Iranian
police are said to have confiscated thousands of
satellite antennas.
Those found in possession of the reception equipment
could end up in court and liable for a $5,500 fine
or imprisonment.
The watching of satellite television has been
prohibited since 1995 in Iran; before then Western
music and movies were
banned.
Turkey submitted three different applications for
the closure of Roj TV back in June 2006, under the
justification that it was inciting violence and
spreading racism. But the Danish Media Secretariat,
which issued Roj TV the necessary license for
broadcast, rejected all three of Turkey's
applications and allowed Roj TV to continue
broadcasting.
Meanwhile the "Balyoz" (sledgehammer) operation
against the PKK in the East and Southeast of Turkey
is ongoing.
Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) operations in the area
intensified this month, with 33 Kurdish rebels
killed. Police activities in the city center
resulted in the capture of 45 suspected PKK
supporters thought to have aided in the concealment
of the Kurdish rebels.
More than 37,000 Turkish soldiers and PKK guerrillas
have been killed since 1984 when the PKK took up
arms for self-rule in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey. The United States and the
European Union, like Turkey, class the PKK as a
"terrorist organisation"
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rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan" Southeast
Turkey.
Others estimate over 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.
Turkey is home to over 25 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Īranź or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatź
Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan) is an unofficial name
for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
borders with Iraq and Turkey.
It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 4 million.
The region is the eastern part of the greater
cultural-geographical area called Kurdistan.
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The Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran in Kurdish
(Hīzbī Dźmokiratī Kurdistanī Źran) is a Kurdish
opposition group in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks
the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a
democratic federal republic of Iran.
The current
General Secretary of the Democratic Party of Iranian
Kurdistan is Mustafa Hijri
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Over 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"
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