The Ministry of Culture in Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), announced Erbil’s readiness to host the three headquarters of the Kurdish TV satellite channels which were closed by the Danish government recently for allegedly having close ties with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
“The ministry is ready to give opportunities to [these] Kurdish channels , in particular [the] channels that have been closed in Denmark to broadcast their programs from the Kurdistan Region,” the general director of media and publications at the Ministry of Culture of Kurdistan Region , Halgurd Abdul Wahab said in a statement, according Shafaq News.
Abdul Wahab stressed that “KRG will provide [the] necessary security [and] protection to [the Kurdish TV stations to] broadcast their programs freely as the rest of [the other] satellite channels and media offices of the international and other Arab media [outlets in Kurdistan.]“
The Ministry of Culture in KRG has offered the owners of those channels to come to the Kurdistan Region and re-broadcast. Last week, the Danish court prevented these Kurdish Channels from broadcasting from Denmark.
The Turkish government has been pushing the Belgian and Danish authorities for the past decade to close the Kurdish satellite channels, that Turkey believes are pro-PKK and anti-Turkish government.
However, the Turkish government succeeded earlier from the closure of the first Kurdish station “MED TV” which was broadcasting from Belgium. Now, the Turks also succeeded by pressuring the Danish authorities to close three other Kurdish channels, ROJ TV, NUCE TV, and MMC TV, that broadcasting their programs from Denmark.
The Danish government issued earlier this month, a decision to close the “ROJ TV” , “MM TV” and “NUCE TV” channels and fined them about two million Euros.
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