According to the Kurdishmedia.com; http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=16620
Roj TV is a Kurdish language television station Headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. US and Turkish officials try to get the station closed, because it is said to be funded by the PKK (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan or Kurdish Workers Party) which is viewed as a terrorist organization by the United States and Turkey. Denmark has not complied in until 2009 when a Danish prim-minister made a deal with Turkey to have to station closed to gain the support of the Turkish government.
The stations managing director, Imdat Yilmaz said the main purpose of the station was to promote the Kurdish culture and language. He also said that the station wasn’t based in Turkey because of the suppression of the Kurdish minority in Turkey.
Roj TV has also been nominated for a Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and is seen as a positive way to help solve the problems between the Kurds and the Turks by some human rights activists.
Interesting predicament, that of the Kurdish people. Not quite a country, so that makes everything a little more difficult for them...
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