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| Aug 19, 2017 at 6:52 | comment | added | user16265 | Since AKP government lots of change happened about these restrictions. Kurdish is not forbidden. Also people don't bother when someone speaks Kurdish anymore. Ten years ago if you speak Kurdish in public, you can even killed because of that. Despite all that, It is not about Kurdish or Turkish culture. It is rooted by Turkish Elitisim (called White Turks "Beyaz Türkler") which against all kinds of Eastern Culture. In the first years of Turkish Republic even Turkish Folk Music had forbidden and radio stations had to play Classical Western style music. | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 12:17 | comment | added | John Woo | So far so good, but if they think a Kurd is a Mountain Turk, why not just accept Kurdish as Mountain Turkish and be done with it? For all we know Texas might actually want to secede from the Union, but there seems to be an understanding in Washington that banning Rodeo would make them want to secede more, not less. I'm going more for: Why do Turks think banning Kurdish is feasible? Are there any precedents for forced renationalizing being succesful? | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 6:57 | history | answered | liftarn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |