A Danish court ruled on Tuesday against banning a television channel that Turkey says is linked with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
But in a nod to Turkish accusations, the City Court of Copenhagen fined Roj TV 400,000 euros because it was financed by the PKK and disseminates PKK propaganda, the Anatolia news agency reported.
After countless complaints and petitions from the Turkish government over a number of years, in August 2010 Denmark's public prosecution opened a court case against Roj TV, a mouthpiece for the PKK, charging it with helping to promote the terrorist group.
The PKK is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the US and the European Union. Roj TV has a Danish broadcasting license, but has no studios in Denmark.
Prosecutors Anders Risager and Jakob Buch-Jepsen, who announced their final opinion during the 28th hearing of the trial on Dec. 7, said the TV station is the voice of the terrorist PKK and have requested a Danish court to ban the channel from broadcasting. They submitted evidence of orders from PKK executives to Roj TV and photographs of Roj TV employees taken in the PKK's bases in the Kandil Mountains in northern Iraq. Buch-Jepsen said during the hearing that the evidence they put forward clearly proves that Roj TV is completely under the control of the PKK, both administratively and financially.
need to sit down or something? its just a piece of news , no need to get worked up.
