Saturday, January 08, 2011

Turkey's Kurds campaign for more language rights

"Turkey's Kurds campaign for more language rights

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA AND CEREN KUMOVA
ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANKARA, Turkey -- As a child, Emrah Kilic couldn't understand a word his grandmother was saying. That's because she was speaking Kurdish, the family's ancestral language, whose public use was harshly suppressed in the name of forging a unified Turkish nation"

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