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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Turkey allows Kurdish language in court | The Australian

Turkey allows Kurdish language in court

From: AAP
January 25, 2013 1:12PM


TURKEY'S parliament has passed a law giving Kurds the right to use their own language in court, the state-run Anatolia news agency reports.

The right to give testimony in their mother tongue was one of the key demands raised by hundreds of prison inmates who went on a 68-day hunger strike that ended in November.

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