Text on the top of the mountain tells Kurds of Wan that they are happy when they speak Turkish. Unfortenately the picture is not very clear.Helsinki Summer University arranges August 2007 a course in Turkish language. They claim in their internet page that 70 million people speak Turkish as their mother language.
From where Helsinki Summer University has taken the number? The Turkish national censuses stopped collecting data on the basis ethnicity after 1965. Before that, people were asked about their mother tongue (source: Kirisci, Kemal and Winrow, Gareth M.: The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of Trans-State Ethnic Conflict. Frank Cass. London 1997. pages 119-120). So at the moment no one knows how many people in Turkey speak Turkish as mother language.
There are 71 million people in Turkey. Even when remembering that there are native Turkish speakers in Bulgaria, North Cyprus and Europe the claim of Helsinki Summer University can be understood only in one way: that most Kurds in Turkey speak Turkish as their mother language. This is one example how the linguicial (=linguistic genocidal) policy of the Republic of Turkey is distributed also abroad.
Last year a Turkish language course of Helsinki Summer University was cancelled due to lack of participants. If the language training in the course is in the same level than the it’s presentation in the internet, it is no wonder that people do not go there.
From where Helsinki Summer University has taken the number? The Turkish national censuses stopped collecting data on the basis ethnicity after 1965. Before that, people were asked about their mother tongue (source: Kirisci, Kemal and Winrow, Gareth M.: The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of Trans-State Ethnic Conflict. Frank Cass. London 1997. pages 119-120). So at the moment no one knows how many people in Turkey speak Turkish as mother language.
There are 71 million people in Turkey. Even when remembering that there are native Turkish speakers in Bulgaria, North Cyprus and Europe the claim of Helsinki Summer University can be understood only in one way: that most Kurds in Turkey speak Turkish as their mother language. This is one example how the linguicial (=linguistic genocidal) policy of the Republic of Turkey is distributed also abroad.
Last year a Turkish language course of Helsinki Summer University was cancelled due to lack of participants. If the language training in the course is in the same level than the it’s presentation in the internet, it is no wonder that people do not go there.
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