On October 1, 2026, a statement was issued in the name of a number of journalists from Zoom Channel. We have known what has been happening behind the scenes of this story for several weeks.

It is normal for any one of them, or for a group of those media workers who worked at Zoom, to establish another media agency of their own, or, as we are seeing, for some other employees of that agency to have found new jobs.

To these individuals establishing agencies, finding jobs, or having jobs found for them. We wish them success, and we do not want to see a single Kurdish journalist unemployed. But this is not the end of the story. An illegal act, such as occupying a channel’s studio, destroying its equipment, and failing to compensate for the damage, cannot be concealed.

We would have preferred all Zoom employees to be able to continue working freely within their own media agency. Since this did not happen, and due to the reasons mentioned, the channel has been unable to continue its work as it did before. As Metro is aware, Zoom has not asked its respected employees to sit beside a scene of devastation where the studio has been occupied by armed men, while another part has been turned into a warehouse for broken journalistic equipment.

We should have been hearing a different story, a story in which respect for the law and freedom of journalism is restored, and the rights of those entitled to them are restored.