Kurds to protest for education in Kurdish

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The Kurdish Language and Culture Network will hold rallies in Turkey's Kurdish-majority eastern provinces of Diyarbakır, Van and Şırnak.

The rallies will be organized as part of the petition launched by the Kurdish Language and Culture Network on February 22 with the slogan, "Make Kurdish the official* and education language in Turkey."

Accordingly, the first rally will be held in Şırnak's Cizre with the slogans "Make Kurdish language the official and education language in Turkey" and "May the 21st century be the century of Kurdish language."

While the rally in Van province will be held on June 4, the one in Diyarbakır province will be held on June 7, 2021.

The Kurdish Language and Culture Network have started preparations for the rallies in the related provinces.

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(RT/SD)

* According to the first sentence of Article 3 of Turkey's Constitution, "The State of Turkey, with its territory and nation, is an indivisible entity and its language is Turkish." The Article 4 also stipulates that "the provision of Article 1 regarding the form of the State being a Republic, the characteristics of the Republic in Article 2, and the provisions of Article 3 shall not be amended, nor shall their amendment be proposed."