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France: Kurdish Roj TV appeal to start on
2 February
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The broadcasts of Kurdish satellite channel
suspended since 23 January, 2012.
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January
26, 2012
PARIS, — Roj TV appeal to Paris
Administrative Court for the reversal of French
satellite company Eutelsat’s decision will start on
February, 2.
The judges in Denmark on 10 January charged the
Kurdish channel with making propaganda for the PKK
(Kurdistan Workers’ Party) but didn’t revoke the
broadcast license of the channel. In connection with
the court’s verdict on Roj TV, French satellite
company Eutelsat on 19 January made a decision to
suspend Roj TV broadcasts as of 23 January.
While the Kurdish people and international press
organizations met Eutelsat’s decision with reaction,www.ekurd.net
Roj TV on 23 January appealed to Paris
Administrative Court to object to the decision of
suspension.
“We are shocked by this unilateral and outrageous
decision violating freedom of expression,” Reporters
Without Borders (RSF) said in a statement on
Eutelsat’s decision which it described as
scandalous.
Roj TV can only be watched on internet since 23
January when satellite broadcasts were suspended by
Eutelsat despite all reactions against the
restriction of freedom of press.
The usual Roj TV broadcast stream can be followed
from Kurdistan and Europe on internet from the
addresses of
www.roj.tv and
http://video.roj.tv/channel/view/roj-75
Since it was established in 1984, the
Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK has been fighting the
Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional
existence of Kurds, to establish a Kurdish state in
the south east of the country, sparking a conflict
that has claimed some 45,000 lives.
But now its aim is the creation an autonomous
Kurdish region and more cultural rights for ethnic
Kurds who constitute the greatest minority in
Turkey, numbering more than 20 million. A large
Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with
the Kurdish PKK rebels.
PKK's demands included releasing PKK detainees,
lifting the ban on education in Kurdish,www.ekurd.net
paving the way for an autonomous democrat Kurdish
system within Turkey, reducing pressure on the
detained PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, stopping
military action against the Kurdish party and
recomposing the Turkish constitution.
Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population
as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural
rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish
language and private Kurdish language courses with
the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish
politicians say the measures fall short of their
expectations.
The PKK is considered as 'terrorist' organization by
Ankara, U.S., the PKK continues to be on the
blacklist list in EU despite court ruling which
overturned a decision
to place the Kurdish rebel group PKK and its
political wing on the European Union's terror list.
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