Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 31
st, 2015 at 9:38am:
Turkey is bombing the Kurds,Erdogan says there is no difference between the Islamic state and the PKK.
Except the PKK are or rather were, almost exclusively Communist and IS is exclusionarily Sunni Islamist in their outlooks. The reality is that the Turks have decided that the peace between the PKK and them was hurting them, just as was the build up of the Kurds in general, so they have decided to strike at them.
Quote:Turkey does not allow the Turkish kurds to speak or teach their Kurdish language,Turkey does not allow Kurds to give their children Kurdish names.
Wrong. The Turks have relaxed their rulings on both the Kurdish language and names for about the last 10 years Baron.
Quote:Between 1983 and 1991, it was forbidden to publicize, publish and/or broadcast in any language other than Turkish, unless that language was the first official language of a country that Turkey has diplomatic relations with.[11] Though this ban technically applied to any language, it had the largest effect on the Kurdish language, which is not the first official language of any country, despite being widely spoken in the Kurdistan region.[12]
In June 2004, Turkey's public television TRT began broadcasting a half-hour Kurdish program,[13] and on March 8, 2006, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) allowed two TV channels (Gün TV and Söz TV) and one radio channel (Medya FM) to have limited service in the Kurdish language. This legislation came into force as an effort to meet one of the European Union’s requirements for membership in its talks with Turkey. The new regulation will allot five hours of weekly radio broadcast and four of television.[14]
Despite these reforms, use of Kurdish in the public sphere and government institutions was still restricted until several years ago. On June 14, 2007, the Interior Ministry took a decision to remove Abdullah Demirbaş from his office as elected mayor of the Sur district of Diyarbakır. They also removed elected members of the municipal council. The high court endorsed the decision of the ministry and ruled that "giving information on various municipal services such as culture, art, environment, city cleaning and health in languages other than Turkish is against the Constitution.[15]
This is despite the fact that according to the above-mentioned municipality, 72% of the people of the district use Kurdish in their daily lives. In another case, the mayor of Diyarbakır, Osman Baydemir, is being subjected to a similar set of interrogations and judicial processes. His case is related to the use of the Kurdish phrase Sersala We Pîroz Be (Happy New Year) in the new year celebration cards issued by the municipality. The prosecutor wrote: "It was determined that the suspect used a Kurdish sentence in the celebration card, ‘Sersala We Piroz Be’ (Happy New Year). I, on behalf of the public, demand that he be punished under Article 222/1 of the Turkish Penal Code".[15]
At present these issues have been solved since quite a long time; the official website of the Municipality today is trilingual: Turkish, Kurdish and English.[16]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_of_Kurdish_people_in_Turkey#Cultural_expression]
Quote:The Kurds have equal rights for women which is unheard of in the middle east,Erdgan said women will never be equal to men which is something muslims claim.
bbc.com/news/world-europe-30183711 Except women have equal rights in Turkey Baron. Erdgan is an Islamist. He is seeking to reverse that.
Quote:Turkey is attacking Kurds in Syria and Iraq,Turkey has been funding groups opposed to Assad,Turkey still occupies Cyprus.
North Cyprus...
Looks to me like you need to catch up with the real world Baron.