{"id":49624,"date":"2012-01-11T04:09:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T02:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=49624"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:10:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:10:36","slug":"turkey-angry-after-danish-court-leaves-kurd-tv-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/01\/11\/turkey-angry-after-danish-court-leaves-kurd-tv-on-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey angry after Danish court leaves Kurd TV on air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49626\" title=\"rojtv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rojtv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rojtv.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rojtv-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>COPENHAGEN, Jan 10 (Reuters) &#8211; A Danish court imposed a small fine on the owners of a Kurdish television station on Tuesday but did not shut it down, despite finding it guilty of promoting terrorism, a decision condemned by Turkey which is fighting Kurdish separatists.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Roj TV, an international satellite station based in Denmark, was financed and controlled by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a group labelled a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Ankara has long sought to have Roj TV banned. However, the Copenhagen court did not revoke its broadcasting licence and instead fined the two companies behind it 65,000 Danish crowns ($11,100) each.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict was cheered by dozens of Kurdish demonstrators who gathered outside the courthouse but was condemned by Turkey as lending support to terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; This is an absolutely irresponsible decision far from prudence ,&#8221; Turkish Minister for EU Affairs<\/p>\n<p>via UPDATE 1-Turkey angry after Danish court leaves Kurd TV on air &#8211; chicagotribune.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN, Jan 10 (Reuters) &#8211; A Danish court imposed a small fine on the owners of a Kurdish television station on Tuesday but did not shut it down, despite finding it guilty of promoting terrorism, a decision condemned by Turkey which is fighting Kurdish separatists. Prosecutors said Roj TV, an international satellite station based in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":49626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207],"tags":[1259],"class_list":["post-49624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denmark","tag-roj-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}