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Sterk TV is a Kurdish-language channel broadcasting from Europe, with the motto Li Ser Şopa Heqîqetê, "on the trail of truth". It carries news and culture for a people divided between Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran.

Kurdish media in the diaspora

The channel belongs to the Kurdish broadcasting that grew up outside the region, from studios in Europe, and transmits back to Kurdistan by satellite and online. Channels of this kind exist because Kurdish-language television was banned or restricted in the states where Kurds live, and they remain the main source of news in Kurdish for many viewers.

Four countries, one audience

Kurds number roughly thirty to forty million and are spread across four states, each with its own dialect and script. Broadcasting in Kurdish for all of them means working in Kurmanji and Sorani and reporting on four separate political systems, which is a heavier agenda than most national channels carry.

News, history and music

The schedule mixes news editions with talk programmes, documentaries on Kurdish history and music and cultural shows. Music and documentary carry particular weight: both are ways of keeping a language and a shared history in daily use when the states concerned have long treated them as suspect.

Distribution

Sterk TV broadcasts by satellite and streams through its own site, reaching viewers in the Kurdish regions, Europe and the wider diaspora.

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