Media News - Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Turkish channels likely to broadcast in Kurdish
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has drafted a new
national programme for broadcasting in Kurdish on private channels in
addition to the state-owned Turkish Radio Television Corporation (TRT),
the Cumhuriyet newspaper reports. The programme seeks to align Turkish
legislation with the European Union, which Turkey hopes to join. It
would allow public and private radio and TV stations to broadcast in
different languages and dialects, including Kurdish, by 2010 if the
supreme television council, the RTÜK, gives its approval. The issue of
broadcasting in Kurdish in sensitive in Turkey. Until 2002, it was
against the law to broadcast in languages other than Turkish. However,
the RTÜK started to allow radio broadcasts in Kurdish and other regional
languages not exceeding 45 minutes a day and television broadcasts in
Kurdish not exceeding 30 minutes a day. Parliament approved a law in May
that allowed TRT to broadcast one of its channels solely in Kurdish. (Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union)
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