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Succesful first week for Turkey's Kurdish-language television channel

Thursday, 8 January 2009

Launched on January 1st, Turkish television station TRT6 is the first state-run channel to be broadcast to the country 24 hours a day in Kurdish.




For the first time, Turkey's Kurdish-speaking population have access to news in their first language as well as dubbed films and programme tackling social and cultural issues.

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