Dr. Bert Cornillie , A researcher at the University of Leuven – Belgium

" ROJ TV MUST KEEP ON WORKING IN DENMARK AND THE EU "

Broadcasting in Kurdish is an absolute necessity for millions of Kurdish citizens in Turkey and elsewhere. The Kurds have long enough been deprived of political and cultural freedom. Western powers brokered the Treaty of Lausanne back in 1923, which subsequently led to the denial of ethnic minorities in Turkey. It is now the moral duty of Europe to allow the oppressed minorities to develop their cultural and political activities. That Roj TV has a quasi monopoly on Kurdish broadcasting is due to the harsh cultural policy of the Turkish State. By no means European member states should follow or support the same humiliating restrictions. Thus, Roj TV must keep on working in Denmark and the EU.

Dr. Bert Cornillie is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leuven. He is co-author and co-editor of The Kurds between Europe and Turkey (2001) and In the Shadow of Saddam. The Kurdish Experiment in Iraq (2003). Both publications are in Dutch.