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Turkey: Diyarbakir Sur Municipality faces
investigation due to "Kurdish wall"
7.4.2007
By Vladimir van Wilgenburg, is a non-Kurdish writer
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April
7, 2007
DIYARBAKIR, Kurdish Southeastern region of
Turkey, -- Ministry of Interior, launched an
investigation into Sur Municipality due to putting
Turkish and Kurdish (in both Kurmanc and Zaza/Dimili
dialects) wall posters up around district in
recognition of Human Rights Week.
Previously a lot of investigations launched against
Sur Municipality due to her multilingual services
and activities. Now as the continuation of these
investigations, Ministry of Interior launched
another investigation into Sur Municipality due to
putting up multilingual wall posters which were
prepared for the Human Rights Week activities.
There was writing “Human is human with his/her
rights” on them in Turkish and Kurdish ("Insan,
haklariyla sandir", "Mirov bi mafen xwe mirove", "Merdim
bi mafexo merdimo"). Sur Municipality put posters up
in various places of district on 10 December 2006.
One of the latest and most serious of these
investigations was about the Sur Municipal
Assembly’s decision toward providing municipal
services in local and international languages
(Kurdish, Arabic, Syriac, Armenian and English) on
06 October 2006. Although most of the previous cases
and investigations ended with dismissal of
proceedings or acquisition of municipality from all
charges, upon the news about decision in press on 5
January 2007, The Ministry of Interior launched an
investigation into Municipality.
Later, The Ministry of Interior, upon the ministry’s
inspector general’s report regarding the decision as
an act violating the Constitution, appealed to the
State Council to dismiss the mayor and dissolve the
Sur Municipal Assembly. The case is still before the
State Council and the court’s decision is expected
in the near future.
Source: Press Statement, European Representative,
Democratic Society Party
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" Southeast
Turkey.
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.
Turkey is home to some 20 million ethnic Kurds, some
of whom openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
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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