Roj TV
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Roj TV was a Kurdish language television station based in Denmark and the central information medium of the underground organization PKK. He sent as Kurd Yek, TRT 6 and Kurdistan TV in the main language in Kurmanji. Roj TV also sent individual mailings to Sorani, Gorani, Zazaki, Turkish, Arabic and Aramaic. The station name is Kurdish Roj and means " sun " or " day ". The transmitter ceased to operate in 2012.
- 2.1 Main themes of the news of Roj TV
- 4.1 Federal Constitutional protection reports
History and Development
The predecessor of Roj TV were the Kurdish station MED - TV and MEDYA TV, which were closed due to their proximity to the PKK.
Prohibition of the previous MED - TV and MEDYA TV
The transmitter MED TV was in March 1995 from London on the air. After three fines totaling 90,000 pounds in January 1998, the broadcasting license finally 23 April 1999 by the UK regulator (Independent Television Commission ) has been withdrawn because the station had repeatedly called for violence in connection with the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan.
On 30 July 1999, the successor MEDYA TV started its transmission mode from a broadcast center in Belgium and applied for a French broadcasting license which was denied, however, by the French authority CSA ( Conseil supérieur de l' audiovisual ) because of links to the PKK, which has been in France is forbidden in 1993. After confirmation by the French Court of Cassation, the television station MEDYA TV was finally deprived the French broadcasting license on 12 February 2004.
On 1 March 2004 then with a live broadcast Roj TV began operations. Roj TV broadcasts with a Danish license from the Belgian broadcasting center in Denderleeuw in which more than 100 people from across Europe to work.
Prohibition proceedings in Denmark
The Turkish government is trying since November 2005, Denmark to move the closure of Roj TV, since this station has great proximity to the PKK. This action had the charge of the process Danish Council on the grounds that he was not responsible for decisions relating to relationships between broadcasters and organizations; the Council directed the complaint to the Danish police. The accusation that the sender " incitement to hatred " operate, was also rejected. The Council reasoned that "... it does not have to already be incitement if an organization or person, etc. ... represents a certain opinion. (...) The mere disclosure of information could not use the term" incitement " ( tilskyndelse ) are described. "
54 Mayor of the Kurdish DTP from the south-eastern Turkey have by petition to the Prime Minister of Denmark, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, asked not to close Roj TV. The Turkish prosecutor complained it to the pro-Kurdish mayors because Roj TV broadcasts and news about the PKK. Rasmussen had shown very surprised on 16 June 2006 in a radio interview that he had ever received a petition. He criticized the Turkish authorities, the accused the mayor because of a petition. Rasmussen recalled the democratic values of Europe. 53 of the indicted mayor were convicted in April 2008 in fines.
The Turkish Embassy has filed a further complaint with the Danish media supervision, but was rejected a second time in April 2008.
On 10 September 2010 the public prosecutor brought criminal charges against Roj TV and Mesopotamia Broadcast for support of terrorism. On January 10, 2012, the Copenhagen court ruled that Roj TV in terms of financial, structural and operational compounds is an instrument of the PKK. The court sentenced Roj TV and Mesopotamia Broadcast to fines of together 5.2 million DKR ( 700,000 euros ), but did not withdraw the station 's broadcasting license. On 23 January 2012, the Danish media regulator opened a new case against Roj TV operator company Mesopotamia Broadcast basis of the findings of the judgment. On July 3, 2013 withdrew Denmark Roj TV 's broadcasting license.
Procedure in Belgium
On 18 February 2008, officers of the Belgian Ministry of Finance, the studios of Roj TV in Denderleeuw. The TV was from a Belgian court for tax evasion punishable by a fine of four million euros as the successor station of MED TV, ran against the various procedures since 1996. The television station was asked to pay until 28 February 2008. Then Roj TV smuggled money, parts of the fernsehtechnsichen equipment and funds to Denmark and Germany. The television equipment was housed in the German studios of Roj TV, whereas the money was transferred to various accounts of employees and PKK members.
On 4 March 2010 the headquarters was stormed by the Belgian police and the broadcast of the program temporarily.
Ban in Germany
In January 2008, Kabel BW has set the broadcast of Roj TV in Baden- Württemberg and Schleswig -Holstein. The German Federal Ministry of the Interior banned mid-June 2008 the operation of Roj TV in the Federal Republic of Germany, since the transmitter is integrated into the organizational structure of the PKK. This is confirmed by the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution, in this Annual Report of 2006 states: " More timely reporting organization via stationed in Denmark television station Roj TV ". The German Studio in Wuppertal was then closed. At the same time for Roj TV production company operating in Germany VIKO was banned and ordered the confiscation of their assets. Across Europe, Kurdish protest against the broadcasting ban, which is why a nationwide signature campaign was started.
Beginning of July, German climbers were kidnapped on Mount Ararat and a change in the " Kurdish enemy " German policy and a lifting of the ban Roj TV required. The hostages, the PKK spokesman Ahmed Deniz, referred to as " guests of honor ", were released after twelve days on 20 July 2008.
On 14 May 2009 the Federal Administrative Court has ruled in an emergency procedure that suits challenging the ban on Roj TV have suspensive effect. The Federal Administrative Court suspended the proceedings from in February 2010 and presented to the European Court of Justice ( ECJ) in Cases C-244/10 and C-245/10 a question for a preliminary ruling. The ECJ ruled on 22 September 2011 that German club bans for violating the principles of international law not contrary to European (especially television Directive 89/552/EEC), " provided that the measures mentioned not the spread in the true sense of television shows that this organizer emanating from the other Member State, prevent the territory of the Member State ".
Withdrawal of the broadcasting slot on satellite
On January 19, 2012 Eutelsat announced that the Roj TV presence on Eutelsat is terminated. The reason the judgment of the Court of Copenhagen was given on 10 January 2012 that would allow Roj TV in terms of financial, structural and operational compounds is an instrument of the PKK. According to the Roj TV director Imdat Yilmaz on 23 January 2012, the station could be seen only via Internet stream. Roj TV announced, to be broadcast via satellite of the U.S. Intelsat from 26 January 2012 but withdrew Intelsat 31 January 2012, also the time slot of Roj TV.
Program
The following topics are broadcast on Roj TV program:
- Morning programs ( Rojbas Kurdistan )
- Children's programs ( cartoons in Kurdish )
- Women's programs (health, education, women's rights, etc.),
- Movies ( in Kurdish )
- Documentaries ( about animals, countries and peoples )
- Music programs ( with guests and live performances )
- Cooking shows
- Programs about Kurdish poetry
- Programs on human rights
- Portraits of Kurdish towns and villages
- Portraits of Kurdish celebrities
- Portraits of fallen guerrilla fighters and their families
- Accounts of life as a guerrilla fighter
- Policy ( current events in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey and the world)
- News from around the world
- Youth Program ( Ciwan )
Main themes of the news of Roj TV
The main themes of Kurdish, Arabic and Turkish-language news broadcasts of Roj TV:
- The health status of Abdullah Ocalan, visits from his lawyers or siblings, communications, location and recommendations that are submitted by his lawyers
- Pronouncements of Murat Karayilan, Chairman of the Executive Council of the coma Civakên Kurdistan, a successor organization of the PKK (often with calls to the Kurdish youth to join the underground organization HPG in the northern Iraqi mountains )
- Announcement of the women's organization of the PKK
- In the pronouncements
- Actions ( petitions, hunger strikes, etc. )
- Funeral services by fighters of the HPG
- Clashes between fighters of the People's Defense Forces
- Repression against the DTP and general state repression
- State action against Kurds in Europe
- Pro -Kurdish rallies in Turkey and Europe
- Seasonal major events of the Kurds and the PKK ( Nowruz celebrations, week of martyrs, Kurdish cultural festival, Zilan - woman festival, commemorations for the so-called international conspiracy against Ocalan )
- International events
- Kurdistan