Turkey wants ban on Danish-based Kurdish TV station
Turkey has harshly criticised Denmark for not revoking the broadcasting license of a Kurdish TV station broadcasting from Denmark. Turkey claims the Kurdish Roj TV station is linked to the outlawed Kurdish Worker’s Party, PPK, which is deemed as being a terrorist organisation by the US, Turkey and The European Union. The Turkish authorities say that the station, which started broadcasting in March 2004, incites hatred and fear by expressing support for the PPK. The Danish Radio and Television Board ruled earlier this year that the station did not contain incitement, but said it had asked police to look into alleged ties between Roj Tv and the PPK.
From DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation)
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How do you feel, as a journalist, that other ‘journalists’ are calling people to take life at will, to place bombs on buildings, on places where tourists, students and people meet, on market places, on religious places, just because those people believe in peaceful principles and ideologies and not in ideologies that involves killing?
How do you feel as journalists that there are other “journalists” call a massacre on fellow Kurds “a victory” because those Kurds don’t support the PKK?
What would you do, if you were working for a media organization that invests all its money on killing people, killing children, killing babies, and in destroying and or burning schools, hospitals, public buildings, busses, trams, trains, but all this on countries other that differs from your base country? Would you still consider that media organization as a media organization? Would you still work for them?
How ethical is it to consider a crime not a crime when it’s committed far from your own home and your own country.
Would you consider it justified if Bin Laden would come to Denmark and he would be arrested by the police?
If yes, on what ground, he has never committed a crime in Denmark, only in other countries.
If no, how would the other countries react on this decision of Denmark?
Is there such a thing as ‘my terrorist’ and ‘not my terrorist’ or ‘my criminal’ and ‘not my criminal’ based on the location of the crimes committed?
How ethical is it to see a criminal as “not a criminal” based on the location of the crime?
Comment by Sinkaf — November 15, 2005 @ 3:51 pm
Relax smartass,
Crime is illegal, so is terrorism we do agree on that one.
But the way the curds have been treated by the turks is a shamefull disgrace. Turkish torture and denial of the most common rights such as free speech and suppresion of monorities is so disgusting that I only have one thing to say to turks commenting that kind of thrash in my blog:
Comment by Hans Henrik Lichtenberg — November 15, 2005 @ 4:42 pm
Well here you show how much you believe in “freedom of speech”…
Nice to see you freak with lovely images when you have no ethical answers :)
Bad human rights don’t justify killing children and supporting those that do… Terrorism is never justified. Murder is never justified.
And what about the human rights of all the victims of the PKK
(Supported by Roj TV and so indirectly supported by Danish government with subsidies - Tax money of al Danish citizens - how does it feel to support slaughters with money that came from your pocket, no big deal for you I suppose)
Well, what about the human rights of those that were massacred by the PKK (funded your tax money), that’s all ok for you? They were no humans, the victims of terrorism? They had no rights? Living is not a human right for you? What about the freedom of speech of those that were slaughtered, they don’t need it anymore as they are lifeless now?
You call this ethics?
Comment by Sinkaf — November 16, 2005 @ 3:07 am
By the way, Roj TV is banned in the UK and Germany for terrorist activities… But there is no freedom of speech in those countries, right…
Keep supporting the “freedom of speech realised by hatred and murder” of the terrorist while ignoring all the human rights of those that were victim to the terrorism.
Comment by Sinkaf — November 16, 2005 @ 3:35 am
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