TRT 6

TRT 6 is the first public television station in Turkey in the Kurdish language. The 24 - hour program with a focus on information launched on 1 January 2009.

Background

Since 2004 there have been individual Kurdish broadcasts on TRT. In the course of Turkey's accession negotiations with the European Union, the country has undergone reforms in which the media promotion of minority languages ​​was part of these reforms. TRT -6 is a state broadcaster of several programs, children's programs to series, films and documentaries, radiates. In this context, TRT began on 2 April 2009 with a Kurdish radio station called " Türkiyenin Sesi " to send ( Voice of Turkey) and on 1 April 2009 with an Armenian-language radio station " TRT Radyo 6 ". Send Both radio stations since around the clock. The TV channel TRT -6 sends some program content in Persian and Arabic.

A full program in Kurdish generated attention. In connection with the opening of the program, the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke a few words in Kurdish. According to some press reports, the Turkish government was trying to date from spectators produced in Denmark Kurdish Roj TV program regain its closure had the Turkish government demanded in vain because of its proximity to the PKK.

Reception

TRT -6 is on the west beam of the satellite Turksat 42 ° East Europe, unencrypted and free -air.