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Turkey seizes Pippi Longstocking in
Kurdish: report
25.8.2006
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STOCKHOLM, August
24 ,-- Over a thousand books about Pippi Long
stocking, the world-famous fictional children's
character, translated into Kurdish have been seized
by Turkish authorities in Istanbul, the Swedish news
agency TT said on Thursday.
The shipment was impounded because it lacked the
documentation required by Turkish customs
authorities and did not have the necessary license
from the Turkish education ministry, TT said.
Kurdish literature is permitted under Turkish law
but the country has attracted international
criticism for its treatment of the Kurdish minority.
The 1,208 books, including 25 different Pippi
titles, were sent on August 7 from Sweden by Komak,
an organisation that runs an education project for
Kurds in Turkey, TT said.
The books had been set for delivery to libraries in
five Kurdish villages.
Astrid Lindgren's books about Pippi Longstocking,
the freckle-faced girl whose antics have fired the
imaginations of children around the world for years,
have been translated into 85 languages and published
in more than 100 countries.
AFP
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan". These
political implications are claimed to involve
primarily the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in
Turkey's current political scene.
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France.
About half of all Kurds which estimate to 20 million
live in Turkey
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia
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