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Radio Ses in Mersin broadcasts programs in the Kurdish Kırmançi dialect, in Zaza spoken by people in eastern Anatolia and in Arabic. Broadcasting director Bilgiç: "The number of listeners increased. RTÜK approved "broadcasting in the mother tongue".

President Gül signs into law the bill that opens the way for TRT to allocate a TV channel for non-Turkish mother tongues, including Kurdish.