"EU Steps Back, Turkey Allows Native Tongue Broadcasts
By Emre Demir, Strasbourg
Published: Thursday, March 09, 2006
zaman.com
Turkey's Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTUK) have given permission for three local channels to broadcast programs nonstop in Kurdish.
However, several European Union countries prefer the limitation of minority language broadcasts, even though the EU set granting permission for Kurdish broadcasts as a precondition to start full membership negotiations. Greece does not permit Turkish broadcasts, while Denmark and Sweden ended Turkish broadcasting on the state radio in February."
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