Kurdistan TV
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| TV channel | |
| reception | via satellite : Eutelsat , Telstar 5 from Intelsat |
| Image resolution | ( Entry missing ) |
| Start of transmission | 1999 |
| owner | Democratic Party of Kurdistan |
| Intendant | Karwan Akrayi |
| List of TV channels | |
| Website | |
Kurdistan TV ( Kurdish کوردستان تیڤی Kurdistan TV ) is a Kurdish television station based in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in Iraq.
The first broadcast began in 1999 and Kurdistan TV was thus the first Kurdish broadcaster in Northern Iraq. The station is owned by Masud Barzani's Democratic Party of Kurdistan . The Turkish journalist İlnur Çevik of Turkish Daily News is said to have helped with the establishment, with the consent of the Turkish government, which wanted to break through the PKK propaganda from Medya-TV .
According to its own information, the station has offices in most cities in the Kurdistan Region, as well as correspondent offices in Iran, Turkey and some European countries. The general director of Kurdistan TV is Karwan Akrayi. Khalil Sinjari is European director of Kurdistan TV and managing director of KTV-Kurdistan TV GmbH in Bedburg-Hau . According to its own information, the station has a total of over 250 full-time employees.
The program contributions are mainly held in Kurdish , but Arabic and Turkish are also spoken on some programs. Kurdistan TV can be received via Eutelsat in Europe, West Asia and North Africa and via Telstar in North America.
The station also has a website, where news and comments are shown in Kurdish, English and Arabic.
References
- ↑ KDP Website launches Kurdistan TV ( Memento from February 22, 1999 in the Internet Archive ) 1999
- ↑ Öcalan's voice falls silent. The Kurdish television station Med-TV, which is close to the PKK, is not allowed to broadcast for three weeks. The Turkish government is now starting a Kurdish-language counter-program ( memento of the original from April 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. By Thomas Dreger taz, March 30, 1999
- ↑ Economy as a factor of order? - The Turkish economic relations with Northern Iraq ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FAHRI TÜRK, International Politics and Society 4/2008
- ^ Kurdish satellite television. A historic step towards Kurdish sovereignty Christina Eberle, Medienheft (publisher: Katholischer Mediendienst) December 2, 2000
- ↑ a b c Kurdistan TV turns 9. Kurdish media quickly catching up to its peers ( Memento from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) By Hawar Kirkuki, The Kurdish Globe No 94, Tuesday, January 23, 2007
