As well as programming in various Kurdish dialects Roj TV broadcast in Turkish (aimed at both Turks and assimilated Kurds), Zaza, Persian and several other languages spoken in the region.

Initially there also were several Turkish language commercial satellite broadcasters established in a similar manner in response to the TRT monopoly.

The Independent Television Commission imposed three fines totaling £90,000 on MED TV for three separate breaches of the requirement for due impartiality before the closure.

[14][15] Roj TV was banned from broadcasting in Germany [discuss] by the German Interior Ministry in June 2008 because of the network's alleged ties with the PKK organization.

Denmark is a member of the EU, and we would expect that the broadcasting organization of a terrorist group would not be given a free pass.

[19] In 2005, when the then Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Denmark and wanted to give a press conference together with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Erdogan refused to do so, as in the audience was also a reporter from Roj TV.

Following the searches, the Interior Minister declared that Roj TV was a part of the PKK and banned the channel from being active in Germany.

As a response Kurds protested in several parts in Europe against the ban of the channel in Germany and the closure of the studios.

[24] Belgian prosecutors said the raid was due to "very serious evidence that, in a very organised way, youngsters of Kurdish origin were recruited in western Europe, notably in Belgium".

In the United States diplomatic cables leak of November 2010, a diplomatic message surfaced that referred to a Turkish representative's claim[27] that Turkey withdrew its opposition to the appointment of Anders Fogh Rasmussen to Secretary General of the NATO in exchange of the closure of Roj TV.