Turkey plays the game according to EU rules - by Zeynep Gurcanli
Pro-Kurdish Roj-TV, which broadcasts from Denmark, entered Turkish political discussions through a sudden rise in terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) activities in the southeast early last year. Ankara, after closely monitoring the channel's broadcasts, drew the conclusion that Roj-TV is affiliated to the terrorist PKK. The Turkish prime minister's political maneuver of boycotting a scheduled joint news conference with his Danish counterpart Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Copenhagen to protest the presence of a Roj-TV journalist there, again last year, added further fuel to the issue and brought it to the very top of issues addressed by the Turkish public.
Whether Ankara's legal maneuver will have an effect in Copenhagen or not, the owners of Roj-TV haven't been idle. In a recent interview with Reuters, Roj-TV's head Manouchehr Tahsili Zonoozi announced that he plans to set up a 24-hour Kurdish language news station, as well as a radio station and music TV channel.
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