Since December 2003 the successor to MED-TV and MEDYA-TV, this Kurdish satellite TV station broadcasts out of Copenhagen but has its main offices in Denderleeuw, Belgium, near Brussels. Yilmaz Imdat heads ROJ-TV, which employs about 100 people in Belgium and four in Denmark. The station has an annual budget of approximately 4 to 5 million euros, or $5-$6 million.
Although ROJ-TV has a great deal of popularity with the Kurds throughout the world, Turkey claims that it is a front for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and terrorism. Accordingly, Turkey has long campaigned to have ROJ-TV shut down, and it even opposed Denmark's Anders Fogh Rasmussen's candidacy as the new secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) because Denmark refused to do so. Germany banned the station in 2008 only to allow it to broadcast again in 2010. On 4 March 2010, Belgian police raided the ROJ-TV studios in that state because of their connection to the PKK and arrested several of their workers. However, they were soon released. In English, roj means "day."
Historical Dictionary of the Kurds. Michael M. Gunter.