Kurdish TV station to broadcast from Syria

Denmark-based Kurdish satellite television station, Roj TV has announced it will broadcast from Syria if a Danish court rules for the closure of the TV station, on suspicions of being affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkish Today's Zaman daily has reported. The Syrian government has agreed with PKK officials to allow Roj TV to broadcast from Syria, the daily said, citing unnamed sources. The City Court of Copenhagen is set to announce its final verdict on January 10. Roj TV broadcasts news, political discussion programmes and cultural programming in the Kurmanji, Sorani and Hewrami dialects of the Kurdish language as well as in Zaza, Persian, Arabic, and Turkish.