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Turkey: Kurdish name ban on Cegerxwin
Cultural Center and 19 parks in Diyarbakir
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Names of a cultural center and some parks banned for
being Kurdish.
Photo: ANF
July 21, 2012
DIYARBAKIR, The Kurdish
region of Turkey, — Diyarbakir 1st Administrative
Court imposed a name ban on Cegerxwin Cultural
Center and 19 parks on the grounds of being Kurdish
and consisting of letters borrowed from foreign
languages.
The name of Kayapınar Youth and Cultural Center,
which was opened in 2009 by Kayapınar Municipality,
was changed to Cegerxwin Youth and Cultural Center
in the same year upon the decision of the district
council. The Governor’s Office of Kayapınar
initiated legal proceedings for the stay of
execution after the name change, claiming that the
name didn’t comply with the Turkish language.
Following Governor’s Office’s action against the
name change, Diyarbakir 1st Administrative Court
ruled a ban on the names of Cegerxwin Youth and
Cultural Center and 19 park areas in the city and
grounded the ban on official procedures which
require naming streets and areas in the Turkish
language and in accordance with constitutional
legislations.
Lawyers of Kayapınar Municipality appealed to the
Council of the State to object to the ban decision
of the Administrative Court.
The banned names of the mentioned parks are;
Zembilroş Park, 33 Bullets Park, Derwęşę Ewdi Park,
Nefel Park, Daraşin Park, Bęzar Park, Ciwan Park,
Sosin Park, Jiyanan Azad Park,www.ekurd.net
Aşîtî Park, Yek Gűlan Park, Beybun Park, Şilan Park,
Roşna Park, Rojbîn Park, Rojda Park, Berfîn Park and
Roşan Park.
Diyarbakir is the main Kurdish city in northern
Kurdistan, southeastern Turkey.
Turkey which still denies the constitutional
existence of Kurds, refuses to recognize its Kurdish
population as a distinct minority. Kurds ask for
more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds who constitute
the greatest minority in Turkey, numbering more than
20 million. Kurds call for lifting the ban on
education in Kurdish, paving the way for an
autonomous democrat Kurdish system within Turkey. A
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK rebels.
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.
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