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Turkish becomes official language in
Kosovo
27.9.2006
Vladimir van Wilgenburg, Journalist, Netherlands |
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From Cihan News Agency
22 Sept. - Turkish has become one of the official
languages in Kosovo following the approval of a
proposal in Kosovo Parliament on Thursday.
The parliament in Kosovo adopted a proposal
yesterday by majority allowing Turkish language to
be the third official language in the region along
with Albanian and Serbo-Croatian.
The Kosovo parliament had rejected the same proposal
twice, the second being on September 14, which
prompted Ankara earlier this week to express sadness
over the rejection.
Around 15,000 Ethnic Turks living in Kosovo have
long wanted their language to be used in official
documents.
Following the rejection of the proposal last week,
Turkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday urged the Kosovo
parliament to discuss the issue again and stressed
the importance that Turkey attributed to the issue.
Turkish was declared official in Kosovo in 1974, but
the United Nations administration in Kosovo removed
it from the official languages in 1999.
Kosovo has been under NATO-led multinational Kosovo
Force (KFOR) since 1999 following a NATO bombing
campaign that drove out Serbian forces, who were
accused of ethnic cleansing. Albanians constitute
almost 90 percent of Kosovo's 2 million population.
Turkey has 350 peacekeepers deployed in Kosovo as
part of the 17,500-strong NATO-led peacekeeping
forces since 1999, as responsible for establishing
and maintaining security in Kosovo.
Why not recognise Kurdish as an official language?
There are more then 20 million Kurds in Turkey?
What's that compared to 15.000 Turks ???
Source: http://vladimirkurdistan.blogspot.com
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".
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.
Kurdish language is not an official language in
Turkey, even 1/3 of the Turkey population are Kurds.
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is
a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia
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