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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Turkey's new Kurdish television channel | Television diplomacy | The Economist

"Turkey and the Kurds
Television diplomacy

Dec 30th 2008 | ANKARA AND DIYARBAKIR
From The Economist print edition
Hopes that a new channel may herald fresh reforms

ROJIN is a feisty, beautiful Kurdish bard who belts out nationalist ballads. As a result, private Kurdish television channels that showed her were long penalised or even taken off the air. But now she will be a regular on Turkey’s stultified TRT state television, which this week launched a 24-hour Kurdish channel in the main Kurdish dialect, Kurmanji."

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