{"id":1710,"date":"2009-12-01T07:32:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2010-01-04T18:32:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T16:32:57","slug":"kurdish-language-classes-at-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/kurdish-language-classes-at-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey approves Kurdish language classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turkey&#8217;s government has approved a plan to open the country&#8217;s first Kurdish-language department at a university as part of its efforts to reconcile with the Kurdish minority.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/mardin-artuklu-university.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1714\" title=\"Turkey approves Kurdish language classes at universities\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/mardin-artuklu-university.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey approves Kurdish language classes at universities\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/strong>The Cabinet&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anatolia news agency, Mardin Artuklu University in Mardin will be the first university to integrate Kurdish language studies in its curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Kurds largely welcome the government&#8217;s overtures to try to end the Kurdish conflict, which has killed tens of thousands of people as the Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party, or PKK, fights for autonomy in Turkey\u2019s southeast.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s anniversary of the PKK\u2019s founding in 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey approves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118],"tags":[2666,2662,2665,2663,77182,2669,2661,2660],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","tag-kurdish-language","tag-kurdish-language-classes","tag-kurdistan-workers","tag-mardin-artuklu-university","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-kurdish","tag-turkey-kurdish-language","tag-turkey-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}