Turkey convicts 53 mayors for backing Kurdish Roj-TV
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OluÅŸturulma Tarihi: Nisan 15, 2008 14:07
A Turkish court found 53 mayors from pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) guilty of supporting the outlawed PKK separatists by asking Denmark's government to keep the Kurdish Roj-TV station on air, Dogan News Agency reported on Monday.
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The court in Diyarbakir in its ruling on Tuesday sentenced the mayors, convicted on the charge of endorsing and backing a criminal organization, to 2.5 months in prison. It later commuted the sentence to fines.
The mayors were indicted in 2006 after writing to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to request that the Roj-TV station be kept on air in Denmark.  Â
Roj-TV is banned in Turkey. Turkey says the station is a propaganda machine for the outlawed separatists of the PKK.    Â