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Kurdistan needs English Language to
protect Kurdish culture
18.6.2012
By Barzan Slaeman
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June 18, 2012
Iraqi Kurdistan needs the use of English Language in
their media to promote the Kurdish culture more.
None of the Kurdish news channels broadcast news in
English. Foreigners in Kurdistan need to know about
the Kurdish culture and by this, the Kurdish media
should use the English language as well. For example
Kurdistan TV, NRT, KNN, Zagros and so on; none of
them use the English language.
The use of English language will promote Kurdish
culture. If the Kurdish media starts broadcasting
news in English and letting the world know who the
Kurds are and what Kurdistan is, maybe people will
start to recognize Kurdistan instead of Northern
Iraq. If Palestine is recognized as Palestine then
Kurdistan should also be recognized as Kurdistan. I
wanted to read an article the other day and looked
up the NRT website knowing that the website itself
does not use the English language.
A popular channel such as NRT should use English
language in their media. The Kurdish media should
also frequently broadcast news and shows in the
Kurmanji dialect to protect and promote Kurdish
culture. Most Kurds from north and west Kurdistan
don’t speak or understand Sorani at all. Both
English and Kurmanji should be used in the Kurdish
media to protect and promote our culture. The world
will get to know about Kurdistan and use the term
“Kurdistan” or at least “Iraqi Kurdistan” instead of
just simple plain “Northern Iraq”.
When media corporations such as Al Jazeera or CNN,
use “Northern Iraq” people mistakenly understand it
as the same Iraq as Baghdad or Mosul. The Kurdistan
Regional Government (KRG) should do everything to
protect and promote the Kurdish culture. Perhaps it
(KRG) can create an independent English channel
promoting the Kurdish culture in every way. This
channel should broadcast music,www.ekurd.net
news, religion, sports. People think that Kurds are
only an Islamic nation. We have Yazidi’s,
Christian’s, Muslim’s as well as Jews and other
small religious sects in the Kurdish culture. We
should let the world know who the Kurds are. It
should be a channel broadcasting all the Kurdish
views from all four parts of Kurdistan. This is the
only way we can let the world know who we (Kurds)
are. Broadcasting such a channel will help the
Kurdish cause more and will benefit all Kurds from
all four parts of Kurdistan.
By Barzan Slaeman - Ekurd.net
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