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Danish Council gives green light for Kurdish Roj TV
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May 5, 2007
The Danish Radio and Television Council on Thursday
rejected Turkish complaints about Kurdish Roj TV
broadcasts, saying that the content of stories aired
on that channel had the characteristics of news
reporting, not propaganda of the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK).
In 2006, the Turkish Supreme Board of Radio and
Television (RTÜK) lodged three complaints against
the broadcasts of Kurdish Roj satellite TV, which
Ankara says is a mouthpiece for the PKK, on the
grounds that the television station breached
broadcasting principles by inciting violence and
racism.
But the Danish Council said there were no grounds to
stop Roj TV broadcasts, because it said, the channel
aired news stories in the same way as other Danish
television stations do.
Turkish sources said they had not yet seen the
official document released by the Danish Council,
adding that Turkey was already contacting Danish
authorities through diplomatic channels to stop Roj
TV broadcasts.
Speaking with the Turkish Daily News, Danish sources
said Turkey could appeal the Danish Council's
decision through the court, not through the
administrative authorities.
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.
More than 30,000 Turkish soldiers and Kurdish PKK
guerrillas have been killed since 1984 when the PKK
took up arms for a Kurdish homeland in the country's
mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.
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** 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" 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
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)
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