Turkey’s government has approved a plan to open the country’s first Kurdish-language department at a university as part of its efforts to reconcile with the Kurdish minority.
The Cabinet’s decision about the new university department was published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday in another step toward recognizing the once-banned Kurdish language, reported The Associated Press.
According to Anatolia news agency, Mardin Artuklu University in Mardin will be the first university to integrate Kurdish language studies in its curriculum.
Kurds largely welcome the government’s overtures to try to end the Kurdish conflict, which has killed tens of thousands of people as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, fights for autonomy in Turkey’s southeast.
Small scale violence continued Tuesday. For the third day in a row, stone-throwing Kurdish demonstrators clashed with police across the nation in the wake of last week’s anniversary of the PKK’s founding in 1978.
Yaai! attempts at peace. empathy would imply what if it were you on the end of those cobra helicopters. OR what if turkey became the next war on TERROR. CAtcha. But steps at peace imply better humanism instead of turkish politicians justifying more senseless butchery of Kurds who throw rocks at American helis. I think if Muslum’s advice of not resorting to chauvinism and labeling of nationality or race and treating kurdish culture as a good thing. Since cultural integration almost always works. Why not treat Kurdish culture as a part of Turkey and not as a seperatists? This idea of culutral integration is a very good idea. Far too late and too small a policy but a late step in the right direction may lead to incidental appropriateness.
well this should not happen should it
I don’t understand what all the fuss is about