List of Kurdish-language television channels

This is a list of Kurdish channels.

Iraq

Turkey

• TRT Kurdî – Turkish state channel (pro-government)
• Zarok TV – Kurdish children's channel (animation)
• Kurdistan TV - Kurdish news's channel (pro-government)

Defunct

These television channels were shut down in the course of the 2016 Turkish purges.

• Denge TV – based in Diyarbakır
• Dîjle TV – based in Diyarbakır
• Dünya TV – based in Gaziantep
• Batman TV
• Amed TV – based in Diyarbakır (Kurdish: Amed)
• Gün TV
• TV 10
• Hayat TV

Iran

• Sahar TV – multilingual TV based in Tehran, Iran and affiliated to Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) which has programs in different languages, including Kurdish
• Kordestan TV – the provincial TV of Kordestan province based in Sanandaj
• Zagros TV – the provincial TV of Kermanshah province based in Kermanshah

• Ilam TV – the provincial TV of Ilam province based in Ilam and affiliated to IRIB which has programs in both Kurdish and Persian

• Mahabad TV – the local TV of Mahabad city and affiliated to IRIB which has program in both Kurdish and Persian
• West Azerbaijan – provincial TV based in Wirmê (Urmîye or Urmia) and affiliated to IRIB which has programs in Kurdish, Azeri and Persian

• Atrak TV – the provincial TV of North Khorasan province based in Bojnurd

Syria

• Rojava TV – based in Syrian Kurdistan
• Ronahî TV – based in Syrian Kurdistan
• Minbij TV – local TV of Manbij
• JIN TV – Kurdish feminist channel by the Newa Women's Foundation and dedicated to Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez who were murdered in Paris in 2013, assassinated by Turkish National Intelligence Organization agents, in the Triple murder of Kurdish activists in Paris

Europe

• ASOsat TV – based in Sweden
• Çira tv
• Gün TV
• KMC TV – based in Sweden, music channel
• Komala TV –
• Kurd 1 – based in Paris, France, independent Kurdish channel
• Medya Haber
• Med Muzîk – music channel, pro-PKK
• Med Nûçe – based in Europe, for whole Kurdistan, specific northern Kurdistan
• Newroz TV – based in Sweden, PJAK
• Rojhelat TV – based in Sweden
• Stêrk TV
• Ronahî TV – for Syrian Kurdistan
• Tishk TV – based in France, KDPI
• Ezdan TV – based in Germany, religious channel

Defunct

• Med TV
• Roj TV – based in Denmark

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