Recently one of its regular debate shows was mysteriously disrupted by a pirate signal, just as a PKK leader was to announce a cease-fire. Prior to this, Tansu Ciller had been touring Europe asking governments not to grant MED TV satellite space. By July 1996 the station was forced off air as Turkey convinced the world that MED TV was funded by separatist PKK terrorists. But in London the ITC could find no undue political bias in MED's emissions. Many Kurdish businessmen in Europe who donate heavily to MED TV vehemently denounce an armed struggle. It is at an illegal PKK rally in Germany that ordinary Kurds support both the PKK and MED TV. In the Brussels studio a Kurdish choir sings for an independent homeland for its disparate people. When Turkey signed a $100m oil deal with Iran, the US responded by giving MED TV American satellite space. This objective report has exclusive access to MED's story and explores the need for a Kurdish identity.

A film by Mark Stucke.