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MED TV is an International Kurdish satellite TV station with studios in London, England and Denderleeuw, Belgium. MED TV Broadcast programs mainly in five languages, Kurdish (Soranî, Kurmancî and Zazaki), English, Arabic, Assyrian and Turkish.

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[edit] Programs and audience

MED TV Programmes are a varied mix from children's programmes, music, drama through to political discussions, documentaries and news broadcasts. It broadcasts to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Its primary audience is in the Middle East where it is seen as a refreshing source of information outside of state censorship. It also has a large audience amongst the Kurdish population scattered throughout Europe.[citation needed]

[edit] Independent Television Commission

MED TV broadcast for five years until its licence was revoked by the regulators Independent Television Commission in 1999 due to a breach of ITC guidelines and perceived pro-PKK bias. Med-TV rejected the connection and insisted its aim was to broadcast politically independent programmes. Many Kurds protested the decision at the time.

Following the ban there were widespread allegations of bias on the part of the ITC as the then chairman had interests in Balfour Beaty and BaE Systems which both had extensive interests in Turkey.

[edit] Quotations

  • "included inflammatory statements encouraging acts of violence in Turkey and elsewhere" — Independent Television Commission[citation needed]
  • "it is not in the public interest to have any broadcaster use the UK as a platform for broadcasts which incite people to violence" — ITC Chairman Sir Robin Biggam[citation needed]
  • "When I went to Dyarbakir and Mardin in December 1995 for the Turkish general election, I enquired particularly whether that TV station [Med-TV] was being received and what was the public response. I was told that the viewers were positively rapturous. Old people had wept for joy after such a long period of cultural starvation. For all, it was a new window on the world and, what is more, in their own language." — Lord Hylton, House of Lords debate on Human Rights in Turkey, 18 July 1997[citation needed]
  • "When I was in Turkey there were people telling me that Med-TV is being watched very much in Turkey" — Pauline Green MEP[citation needed]

[edit] Trivia

When the UK closed the Med TV, MEDYA TV Started transmissions from studios in Belgium via a satellite uplink from France. However MEDYA TV was also banned by the French authorities. A few weeks later Roj TV began transmissions from Denmark.[citation needed]

[edit] See also

[edit] References and external links

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