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'Children think that Kurdish is banned'

CHILDREN’S USE OF MOTHER LANGUAGE

'Children think that Kurdish is banned'

From the report of the Migration and Humanitarian Assistance Foundation: "Though it is not forbidden to speak Kurdish, children’s expressions reveal that they were subjected to de facto obstructions and exclusion when speaking in their mother language."

Boycott for The Rights of Kurds Spreads to Universities

EDUCATION IN MOTHER TONGUE

Boycott for The Rights of Kurds Spreads to Universities

"Education cannot leave out the mother tongue" was the message of Kurdish students who started a boycott at universities after the one-week boycott at south-eastern primary and high schools. They demand education in Kurdish, the Laz language and Circassian.

29 September 2010 Semra Pelek

No Education in Mother Tongue with PM Erdoğan

No Education in Mother Tongue with PM Erdoğan

On the last day of the one-week school boycott for the right to education in the mother tongue in the Kurdish-majority South-East, PM Erdoğan announced: "Do not expect us to agree to education in the mother tongue, Turkey's official language is Turkish".

27 September 2010 Semra Pelek

"Education in Mother Tongue For All Minority Children!"

A Minority Rights Group reports calls on the Turkish government to introduce necessary amendments in law to allow education in mother tongues as well as clearing curriculum of nationalistic and discriminatory approaches.

Turkish State TV To Broadcast In Kurdish

The TRT8 of the Turkish State Television will start broadcasting in Kurdish on January 1. But no regulation explaining how this will be done exists yet.

18 November 2008 Erol Önderoğlu