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Kurdish ROJ TV founder captured in Turkey
9.1.2008
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January
9, 2008
Antalya, Turkey, -- One of the founders of
Kurdish ROJ TV which broadcasts from Denmark, was
captured in the Manavgat district of Antalya on
Monday evening.
The Turkish authorities say ROJ TV is a mouthpiece
of the Turkey's PKK group, listed as a 'terrorist'
group by Ankara, the European Union and the United
States.
According to Turkey, ROJ TV, regularly carries PKK
statements and interviews with PKK commanders, thus
"it is an indisputable fact that ROJ TV is the
mouthpiece of the PKK terrorist organisation and...
serves its objectives."
Abdülkadir Dilsiz, also an allegedly high-ranking
PKK commander, was found hiding in a house in the
Ulualan quarter.
Dilsiz, who has long been sought by the police, was
captured with a laptop computer, a desktop computer,
CDs and various computer programs suspected to have
been used in ciphered inter-organizational
communications. The computers have been sent to
Ankara for analysis.
Dilsiz reportedly used many fake ID cards and
frequently traveled to Iraq. Dilsiz, who is reputed
to be an expert in Internet and broadcasting
technology,www.ekurd.net
is said to have
developed new software that makes it possible for
all PKK members to communicate with each other
despite many of them speaking different dialects of
Kurdish and some being unable to speak any Kurdish
at all. Following questioning the suspect was
arrested.
The Danish Radio and Television Council in May 2007
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).
During a visit to Copenhagen in November 2005,
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
boycotted a joint news conference with Rasmussen
after the Dane rejected his request that a ROJ TV
reporter be barred from entry.
Danish authorities have said that Roj TV's
programming contains no incitement to hatred of
Turkey and there is no proof it is linked to the PKK.
Since 1984
when PKK
took up arms for self-rule in the country's mainly
Kurdish southeast of Turkey. A
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
The PKK demanded Turkey's recognition of the Kurds'
identity in its constitution and of their language
as a native language along with Turkish in the
country's Kurdish areas,www.ekurd.net
the party also demanded
an end to ethnic discrimination in Turkish laws and
constitution against Kurds, granting them full
political freedoms.
Todayszaman com | AFP | AP
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Kurds are not recognized as an official minority in
Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
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, a
large Turkey's Kurdish community 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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