KARABUK
Deputy Chairman of Justice and Development (AK) Party Mehmet Ali Sahin stated on Monday that Anadolu Agency's (AA) adding Kurdish language in its broadcasts would also benefit the solution process in Turkey, which started at the beginning of 2013.
Sahin appreciated the efforts of state-run AA, which transmits the agenda of governments and states to people from each language.
"Other countries, agencies of other countries even do these since long time. I see that AA takes a similar task," he said.
AA has increased the number of languages it broadcasts to six, adding Kurdish to five languages it already publishes news in.
Kurdish language will enrich the diversity of AA news with its two dialects, Kurmanji and Sorani. Addition of Kurdish language was welcomed by politicians, academicians and NGOs while becoming one of the positive steps the agency has taken for its vision of becoming one of the five most effective news agencies of the world.
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc had said, "with its Kurdish broadcast, AA will constitute a strong bridge between Turkey and Kurdish population in surrounding countries, our Kurdish brothers, sisters and public opinion there, just like it does with Bosnian in the Balkans and Arabic broadcasts in the Middle East."
Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu also praised the new step, saying it was important that AA continued developing itself and keeping its credibility.
The spokesman for the regional administration in north of Iraq, Sefin Dizayi congratulated AA and said the AA presence in Irbil and Suleymaniyah was very important for them, adding that AA was an organization covering political, economic and cultural developments in Kurdish administration in north of Iraq with correct and honest journalism.
BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) leader Selahattin Demirtas and BDP lawmakers welcomed the move too.
News, photos and videos will be served on News Flow System (HAS) and AA will serve Kurdish news on http://www.aa.com.tr/kk in Kurmanji dialect and “http://www.aa.com.tr/ks” in Sorani dialect.
