Launched January, 2006 Website www.suryoyosat.com | Headquarters Södertälje, Sweden | |
Owned by Bahro Suryoyo Mediaförening Slogan "For the people, by the people" Hotbird 13deg E 10971 MHz, (H), 27500 ks/s, FEC 3/4 | ||
Suryoyo Sat (Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܣܬ) is a Syriac language TV-Channel broadcasting from Södertälje, Sweden. Reaching and sending to more than 80 countries, the channel wants to unite the people under the Syriac name. Suryoyo Sat's programming is mainly conducted in Turoyo Neo-Aramaic and to a lesser extent in English and Arabic.
Manipulation scandal
In April 2013, the Södertälje-based daily newspaper Länstidningen (LT) accused Suryoyo SAT of manipulation of a photo taken during Abdullah Güls, then President of Turkey, visit in Sweden. In the picture, where Gül poses with a Syriac Orthodox archbishop and a number of representatives from the Assyrian and Syriac-Aramaic federations in Sweden, Suryoyo SAT replaced one of the Assyrian representatives with a Syriac-Aramaic one. Two days later, Suryoyo SAT apologized for the incident, saying that the involved persons had been warned.