BDP call to support RojTv
BDP call to support RojTv
The BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) has issued a press release in which it calls on people at home and abroad to support the Kurdish television channel RojTV.
The satellite channel will be on the dock in Denmark on 15 August accused of making propaganda for the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party).
In their statement the BDP signatories say that "multilingual broadcast of independent establishment ROJ TV, followed intensively in Kurdistan, Middle East, Caucasia and Europe, has increased the dialogue among peoples. Besides, the principal anti-censorship stance, which bases on the tradition of free press that ROJ TV grounds on, provides a great service to the information society targeted by the EU".
The BDP statement then refer to the fact that "the Turkish government, which adopts a freedom restrictive attitude in many political and social issues, the Kurdish problem in particular, expect other countries to display the same attitude in foreign policy as well. However, it is obvious that the disregard of covered secret negotiations by EU member countries, despite their legal sensitivity in press, will create a great despair for not only the Kurdish people, but also all the peoples of the Middle East and the democratic world public opinion. Therefore, ROJ TV trial in Copenhagen is regarded as an important test for democracy and freedom of press".
The BDP statement ends with a call: "We the Kurdish society and the democracy powers in Turkey expect the EU countries, particularly Denmark, who adopt democracy, human rights and freedom of press as a principle, to provide contribution to ROJ TV to meet the conditions of a free broadcast. In this sense, we ask all intellectuals, the elected and every individual in the world, who dignify democracy and the peoples’ freedom of mother-tongue, to give their support by signing this text as a party to the freedom of press against the unacceptability of this case".
The satellite channel will be on the dock in Denmark on 15 August accused of making propaganda for the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party).
In their statement the BDP signatories say that "multilingual broadcast of independent establishment ROJ TV, followed intensively in Kurdistan, Middle East, Caucasia and Europe, has increased the dialogue among peoples. Besides, the principal anti-censorship stance, which bases on the tradition of free press that ROJ TV grounds on, provides a great service to the information society targeted by the EU".
The BDP statement then refer to the fact that "the Turkish government, which adopts a freedom restrictive attitude in many political and social issues, the Kurdish problem in particular, expect other countries to display the same attitude in foreign policy as well. However, it is obvious that the disregard of covered secret negotiations by EU member countries, despite their legal sensitivity in press, will create a great despair for not only the Kurdish people, but also all the peoples of the Middle East and the democratic world public opinion. Therefore, ROJ TV trial in Copenhagen is regarded as an important test for democracy and freedom of press".
The BDP statement ends with a call: "We the Kurdish society and the democracy powers in Turkey expect the EU countries, particularly Denmark, who adopt democracy, human rights and freedom of press as a principle, to provide contribution to ROJ TV to meet the conditions of a free broadcast. In this sense, we ask all intellectuals, the elected and every individual in the world, who dignify democracy and the peoples’ freedom of mother-tongue, to give their support by signing this text as a party to the freedom of press against the unacceptability of this case".
