Top court backs Denmark in discontinuing licence for PKK TV channel
By Emil Weber
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in a unanimous decision issued on 24 May 2018, backed the domestic courts in Denmark for convicting a broadcaster that promoted the activities of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and discontinuing their licence to broadcast.
A Kurdish protest in Germany (Rainer Jensen/ dpa)
The 'Roj TV A/S' had been broadcasting in the Kurdish language, in Europe and Middle East, via satellite from Denmark, since 2004. Turkey’s government had complained against the channel’s support for the PKK in 2006 and 2007, but these complaints were dismissed by the Danish Radio and Television Board. Turkey…