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3/9/06

EU Steps Back, Turkey Allows Native Tongue Broadcasts

ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER:

"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.

Germany was previously criticized after it approved the report of the Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe, since it did not allow the required duration of programs broadcast in minority languages."

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