Ayşe Yılmaz/JINHA

MANİSA – Children want their channel Zarok TV among the closed channels, back. “We could watch cartoons in our language through Zarok TV, we were happy when we watched it,” said the children.

The AKP government closed many channels, including children’s channel Zarok TV, within the scope of the decree law No. 668 which was issued during the process of State of Emergency declared following the attempted coup. Children want the channel, which broadcasted in Kurdish, back.

Umut and Öykü, who live in the Nurlupınar Neighborhood of Manisa’s Şehzadeler district, said the most they liked to watch The Smurfs. Öykü is unhappy now because she cannot watch the cartoons in her native language.

Sinan’s arm was broken and he has to stay at home all day. Sinan wanted Zarok TV to be opened again to watch cartoons in his native language.

Not only children but also adults watched Zarok TV. Kurdish people, who live in the West of Turkey, watched Zarok TV because it broadcasted in Kurdish. Mevlüde Silinsin is one of them. She stated that she was surprised there was a children’s channel among the closed channels. She said, “We live in the West and we watched only the closed channels. They shut down the channels we watched. We don’t watch channels anymore. All closed channels should be opened again.”

(gc/gd)