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Turkey reaches out to its Kurdish minority
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December 2, 2009
ANKARA, — Turkey's government has approved a
plan to open the country's first Kurdish-language
department at a university as part of its efforts to
reconcile with the Kurdish minority.
Kurds largely welcome the government's overtures to
try to end the Kurdish conflict, which has killed
tens of thousands of people as the rebels fight for
autonomy in the Kurdish-dominated southeast.
Small scale violence continued Tuesday. For the
third day in a row,www.ekurd.netstone-throwing
Kurdish militants clashed with police across the
nation in the wake of last week's anniversary of the
1978 founding of the rebel group.
The Cabinet's decision about the new university
department was published in the Official Gazette on
Tuesday in another step toward recognizing the
once-banned Kurdish language.
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