"Turkey's Kurdish Question: Irony Within Irony
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 6 Issue: 37
February 25, 2009 04:37 PM Age: 5 days
Category: Turkey, Eurasia Daily Monitor, Domestic/Social, Home Page
By: Emrullah Uslu
Ahmet Turk, the Chairman of the Kurdish nationalist Democratic Society Party (DTP)
In November 2008 Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan made one of his most disconcerting statements toward the Kurds in Turkey: 'We have said, ‘One nation, one flag, one motherland, and one state.'...Those who oppose this should leave' (See EDM November 4, 2008). In January 2009 the state-owned TV channel TRT 6 launched 24-hour broadcasting in the Kurdish language. Erdogan spoke Kurdish in his welcoming message to TRT 6. Even Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentarians appeared in various programs of Kurdish TRT, speaking in Kurdish and singing Kurdish songs. On February 21 Erdogan went to Diyarbakir and revealed his plan to open Turkey's doors to the famous exiled Kurdish singer Sivan Perwer (Aksam, Radikal, Taraf, February 22)."
More:Turkey's Kurdish Question: Irony Within Irony - The Jamestown Foundation
