Kurdistan 24 (K24) is a Kurdish broadcast news station based in Hewler, Kurdistan with foreign bureaus in Washington, DC and Cologne, Germany. The service was launched on October 31, 2015, with television programs being broadcast in the Sorani and Kurmanji dialects of Kurdish, as well as in English and Turkish. Noreldin Waisy is the founder and General Manager of Kurdistan 24.
Turkey has removed three television channels based in Southern Kurdistan, including Kurdish news agency Kurdistan 24, from its TurkSat satellite over broadcasting violations during the Kurdistan Region's independence referendum.