Ishtar TV
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Ishtar TV is an Assyrian Chaldean Syriac
broadcasting
channel which has its headquarters in Ankawa
, Iraq
. It was established by Sarkis Aghajan and was led by George Mansour
, who was Ishtar TV's first General Manager, in 2005. The language broadcasts mostly in Syriac
, but Arabic and Kurdish
are heard throughout the day as well.
Assyrian people
The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia...
broadcasting
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
channel which has its headquarters in Ankawa
Ankawa
Ankawa , is an Iraqi Christian town of about 30,000 people, in practice a suburb of Arbil, Erbil Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan, northern Iraq...
, Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
. It was established by Sarkis Aghajan and was led by George Mansour
George Mansour
George Mansour is an Iraqi journalist, broadcaster and politician, a Minister of Region for Civil Society Affairs and founder and first General Manager for Ishtar Broadcasting Corporation till June 2006...
, who was Ishtar TV's first General Manager, in 2005. The language broadcasts mostly in Syriac
Syriac language
Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from...
, but Arabic and Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....
are heard throughout the day as well.