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Kurdistan Regional Government boosts
Aramaic culture
19.2.2008
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February 19, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan Region 'Iraq',-- The
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is boosting the
Aramaic culture and encouraging its growth in the
region, the region's minister of culture said on
Tuesday.
"Under the new amendments to the law of the KRG's
culture ministry, two general departments for the
Aramaic and Turkmen cultures will be opened…,"
Minister Falakaddin Kakai said during his
inauguration of the general department for Aramaic
culture and arts in Ankawa, a town with a Chaldo-Assyrian
majority northeast of Erbil city. |
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The departments will
encourage the promotion of the Aramaic language,
culture, arts, and heritage the minister explained.
The inauguration of the departments boosts the
spirit of plurality in the region, the minister
added,www.ekurd.net
explaining that it will
be a good opportunity to gather the Aramaic heritage
and help Aramean writers print their writings.
Chaldo-Assyrians in Iraq's Kurdistan region are
currently estimated at 250,000, according to
unofficial statistics.
Erbil, the capital city of Iraq's Kurdistan region,
lies 349 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
VOI
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