Yesterday I was shocked.... probably because I don't keep up on the news... to hear that ROJ TV had been taken off the air. All those times of sitting in Batmaz Restaurant watching music videos of female machine-gun-toting peshmerga singing in the mountains of Turkey. All those broadcasts where the cameramen follow so closely behind the PKK rebels that they can hear them breathing and watch as they shoot Turkish military helicopters from the sky (Although more than once I have questioned the authenticity of the footage). I was flabbergasted... but then my friend turned on the TV, switched to Hotbird satellite and looked up ROJ alphabetically. Sure enough - no programming, only the station's symbol blinking on the screen.
I guess it makes sense. Obama has already met with Turkey with the intention of asking Turkey not to block the Nato appointment of Rassmussen... a Dane! Those Danes who allowed the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed (PBUH) to be published in the paper... They are also the ones who allowed ROJ TV to continue operation in Denmark even though they had PPK affiliations.
I guess Turkey was able to prove that ROJ was engaged in terrorist activities... The National posted the story prior to Obama's visit, but I haven't found any news from this week... keep posted. Some diaspora Kurdish sites are petitioning to stop the closure.
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i think ROJ tv frequency has changed and they are in a different group or whatever they call it. I read that the Tv is still broadcasting.
Thanks Aida and Aram... I looked it up alphabetically in the channels list and it isn't hosted by the sattelites HOTBIRD or NILSAT... But then again, maybe they renamed it again. It was called MED TV, then MEDYA TV until Britain and France (respectively) closed them down.
Roj TV is still fully functioning.. They have just changed their frequency :)
Viva Roj TV.No one can stop or bane kurdCulture or language in turkey .turkey is banned free Kurdish TV inside turkey so Kurdish people they are from turkey opened this channel ,,and PKK not rebels .if there is free speech and media in turkey also free TV, Kurdish people not opening this TV, for your info this TV is working now. No one can say Kurd is Turk ,,By By.
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