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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Nov 30, 2024 01:30 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Is banning the burps of bullocks worth risking our bollocks? That the question posed by the decision to give Bovaer to cows to 'save the planet', says Ben Pile, after evidence suggests a possible risk to male fertility.
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Kurdish Station again under Threat - Save Roj TV!

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Monday October 11, 2010 23:09author by KSI Report this post to the editors

Kurdish exiles resident in Ireland have issued a statement calling on Eamon Ryan TD, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, to grant an Irish broadcasting licence to Roj TV in a gesture of solidarity with the station’s journalists, viewers and with the Kurdish people.

Kurds in Ireland condemn the latest threats to Roj TV. We view the current legal proceedings against the Kurdish satellite channel, which will be heard on 19 October, as purely political and as being carried out at the request of Turkey. With this collusion Denmark is damaging its own standards of free speech.

Roj TV is a Kurdish satellite channel which has production studios in Belgium but is licensed in Denmark. It broadcasts news, current affairs, cultural and entertainment programmes to an audience of over 40 million people across Europe and the Middle East. Roj TV and its precursors Med TV and Medya TV have all come under intense pressure from the Turkish authorities. In March 2010 Belgian forces, alongside Turkish commandos, raided Roj TV’s studios in Belgium, firing water cannon on the journalists outside, arresting many and causing millions of euros worth of damage to equipment.

Such attacks on Kurdish parties, organisations and media are clearly attempts to criminalize the Kurdish nation. These attacks are rejected by Kurds, who will continue our dignified struggle for democracy and parity of esteem in Turkey.

By colluding with the Turkish state in this manner, the Danish authorities are calling their own standards of freedom of speech and adherence to human rights into question. The ideals of democracy and free speech on which the European Union was founded are not exclusive, and Kurds will not be deterred in their struggle for these rights.

It is our expectation and hope that all charges against Roj TV will be dropped by the Danish courts, and the station can continue broadcasting without threat or pressure.

We also demand that the Turkish authorities cease harassing and criminalizing Kurdish journalists and Roj TV, and instead support Roj TV as the voice of the Kurdish people, in line with the Turkish government’s stated aims of democratisation and the “Kurdish Opening” policy. If the Danish licence is revoked then Turkey should support Roj TV and facilitate the station in transferring its broadcast centre to Turkish Kurdistan.

If both Denmark and Turkey fail to support the Kurdish station, its employees and its viewers, then we call on the Irish Government and particularly Eamon Ryan TD, Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, to grant an Irish broadcasting licence to Roj TV in a gesture of solidarity with the station’s journalists, viewers and with the Kurdish people.

Watch Roj TV: www.roj.tv

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