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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Turkey sets date for first lessons in Kurdish - The National Newspaper

"Turkey sets date for first lessons in Kurdish

Thomas Seibert, Foreign Correspondent

ISTANBUL // At a little-known university in south-eastern Turkey that was founded only two years ago, history is being written.

With its 700 students, Mardin Artuklu University, named after a 10th-century regional principality, finds itself spearheading a political initiative designed to fundamentally change the way the country deals with its estimated 12 million Kurds and to end a conflict that has cost tens of thousands of lives."

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