Text of report in English by Turkish news agency Anatolia
The Voice of Turkey Radio will start broadcasting programmes for Afghanistan on 21 March. The radio will broadcast in Dari, Farsi and Pashto dialects and for Uzbeks living in Afghanistan. The programme will be broadcast between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Turkish local time [1600-1700 gmt]. The Voice of Turkey Radio is now broadcasting in 29 different languages.
Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai sent a message to Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, expressing his pleasure with the radio’s broadcasting for his country.
(Source: Anatolia news agency, Ankara, in English 1047 gmt 20 Mar 08 via BBC Monitoring)
Update 21 March: Thanks to Mustafa Cankurt for providing the transmission details: 1600-1700 UTC on 9705 KHz. This broadcast will also be repeated via Internet and Turksat 2 A and Eutelsat Hotbird 6 at 0530-0630 UTC.
(Source: R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)