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| Turkey stops Kurdish broadcasts: Official | ||
| 2016-09-30 | ||
The channels including Zarok TV -- the first Kurdish children's channel -- stopped broadcasting on Wednesday night and they have been removed from the TURKSAT satellite, the official in the Kurdish-majority southeastern city of Diyarbakir told AFP. Four of the channels were entirely in the Kurdish language, three more were partly in Kurdish and the three others were in Turkish but considered pro-Kurd, said the official, who asked not to be identified. He said the authorities also shut down two radio stations broadcasting in Kurdish and Turkish. Turkey Suffers 38% Visitor Drop as Coup Hits Tourism
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... plummeted nearly 38 percent in August, with tourism battered by the July failed coup and security concerns after attacks, statistics showed Thursday. The figures are the first to show visitor numbers for a full month after the attempted putsch which saw a rogue military faction try to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... from power and attempt to seize Istanbul's main international airport. Some 3.18 million visitors came to Turkey in August this year, down 37.96 percent on August 2015, the tourism ministry said in its latest release. June saw the sharpest drop of 40.86 percent compared with the previous year, while in July, the number of arrivals fell by 36.72 percent. The tourism industry last year was worth $35.1 billion in revenues and it accounts for 4.4 percent of GDP in Turkey. | ||
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