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DEM Party Co-Chair Tuncer Bakırhan delivered his group speech in Kurdish on the occasion of February 21, International Mother Language Day. Other politicians spoke in Zazaki, Arabic, Syriac, Georgian, Lazuri, and Armenian.

Following the arrival of Turkish Army officials to a school intended to teach classes in Kurdish in Diyarbakır’s Lice district, villagers tok the roads which was responded by blocking of all roads by army soldiers.