Sunday, 28 December 2008Sezgin Tanrıkulu (Former Diyarbakır Bar Association President): "This is an important and serious step. This shows that the state has moved on from the stage of denying the existence of Kurds to acknowledging Kurds. We can discuss the content of the channel, but regardless of all of that, it is important that a public broadcaster is allocating one channel for this."
Tarık Ziya Ekinci (Kurdish intellectual): "I talked about my biography and my family in Kurdish on the channel. This is an important step, but the legal basis should also be provided. You do this at one point, but in some other place, a judge convicts someone for singing a song in Kurdish. Steps that would establish this as the overall state mentality in the citizens' viewpoints are needed. Without doing these, Kurdish TV is starting from the end".
Seydi Fırat (a spokesperson for the Peace Council): "The broadcasts should be appreciated. But we do have doubts. There is the worry that the state might use it for political purposes, to make its own policies dominant. There have been television stations broadcasting in Kurdish for years, so I don't think it is a novelty. But if there is going to be such broadcasting, it shouldn't be done with the state mentality. If the channel can be a place where people can express themselves individually, then it would be a positive step."
TRT 6's frequency
Satellite position: 12685,
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FEC: 5/6
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Sunday, 28 December 2008
Journal of Turkish Weekly
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