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Deniz Ulke Aribogan: Turkey to break up in
two years?
27.3.2008
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March 27, 2008
ISTANBUL, -- All pillars of the Turkish state
are being attacked, said Deniz Ulke Aribogan, rector
of the Istanbul's Bahcesehir University.
“The enquiry of the Turkish General Staff for AKP
closure is a part of this concealed struggle,” she
said. “The Kurdish issue is one of the most severe
challenges Turkey will face in the near future.”
“All segments of a state: the legislative, executive
and presidential powers are being destroyed. Look at
out army! It’s not organized at all. The state is
floundering. If the democratic regime collapses we
will fall under military diktat. Within some 2
years,www.ekurd.net
the ongoing processes
may result in Turkey’s decline and emergence of a
Kurdish state,” she said, Kurdistan News reports. |
Deniz Ulke Aribogan |
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** Kurds are not recognized as an official minority
in Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
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 25 million ethnic Kurds, a
large Turkey's Kurdish community 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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