"We did not provide a platform for PKK propaganda" and "we are not guilty", the station's defence attorney Bjoern Elmquist told reporters, adding that he hoped the station would be acquitted on appeal.

A Copenhagen court on Tuesday found "that T (used in the court documents to refer to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK) was a terrorist organisation" and that the station "supported the organisation's activities" from February 2008 to September 2010.

The ruling was based on a series of programmes aired by Roj TV that "relayed in a biased and uncritical manner the (PKK's) messages, including incitement to uprisings and to join the organisation", according to the court documents.

But Elmquist said Friday the court had prohibited the defence from showing a series of programmes aired by Roj TV to prove that that was not the case.

"The court didn't try to find out more about it," he lamented.

Danish authorities first filed charges against Roj TV in 2010 after a five-year probe into its broadcasts, alleging it supported the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist group in Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

The two companies behind the broadcaster, which airs in 68 countries, were each sentenced to fines totalling 5.2 million kroner (700,000 euros, $895,000).

The court did not however withdraw Roj TV's broadcasting licence.

The PKK took up arms in the Kurdish-majority southeast of Turkey in 1984, sparking a conflict that has claimed about 45,000 lives.

Turkish ambassador Ahmet Berki Dibek said after Tuesday's verdict that the ruling did not go far enough.

"The PKK will probably pay the fines," he told reporters, calling for the station to have its licence revoked.

Asked about the financial links between the PKK and Roj TV, the head of the station, Imdat Yilmaz, replied: "We were not tried on that."

Elmquist said meanwhile the fines would not be paid pending the appeal.

Turkey's foreign ministry hailed the court for exposing what it said were links between the media and the PKK, adding: "It is undeniable that this ruling will create a precedent in the global fight against terrorism."

According to Yilmaz, Roj TV airs in Europe and the Middle East and has 30 million viewers.