Application to add Kurdish to Women’s Emergency Support App

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Lawyers from the Diyarbakır Bar Association's Women's Rights Center and Commission on Kurdish Language have made a request to the Ministry of Interior to add Kurdish to the list of languages that the Women's Emergency Support (KADES) application is offering services in.

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In their application to the Ministry, the lawyers have underlined that "while the mother tongue of millions of citizens living in Turkey is Kurdish, there are also several citizens who do not speak any other language."

"It is obvious that violence against women does not arise based on specific economic, social, racial, religious and linguisting parameters.

"Unfortunately, every woman in the world is a potential victim of this violence. For this reason, an application developed with the aim of preventing violence against women and protecting the women subjected to violence must offer services within the frame of the languages existing and spoken in the country. It is extremely crucial that women, who are among disadvantaged groups, are not subjected to another unjust treatment due to the language that they use," the lawyers have underlined further.

Developed and introduced by the Ministry of Interior in March 2018, the KADES application has been offering services in Persian, Arabic, English, Russian and French, in addition to Turkish. It is widely criticized for not adding Kurdish to the KADES' list of languages. (RT/SD)