Hurriyet DN Online with wires
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Turkey's state-run TV will launch a channel to air in the Arabic-language in the near future, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said late on Wednesday.
Preparations for a TV channel in Arabic are about to be completed, and the TV channel, under the auspices of the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), could start broadcasting at any time, Erdogan told broadcaster TGRT Haber.
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He also told the news channel that TRT would launch a radio station broadcasting in Kurdish.
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Turkey recently took steps to boost the cultural and democratic rights of Kurds with the Jan. 1 launch of  TRT-6, a TV channel that airs in Kurdish 24 hours a day.
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