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Storms, floods kill nine in Kurdish region of
eastern Turkey
28.5.2007 |
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May
28, 2007
DIYARBAKIR, Kurdish Southeastern region of
Turkey, -- Storms and flooding in eastern
Turkey have killed nine people, local officials said
on Monday.
Six people were killed and two more were still
missing after severe flooding in mountainous Agri
province near the Iranian border, where river waters
were swollen by melting snows.
In nearby Van province, a two-year old child died
when landslides triggered by heavy rain demolished a
house. Separately, two girls were killed and one
other person was injured after being struck by
lightning in the region.
Reuters
** 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 over 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 over 25 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)
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