Mother tongue and the Constitution
As of today, the majority of the Kurdish population is in an agreement that the usage of mother tongue in education has become a “sine qua non” The new […]
The News in The Press
“If the state tells us to disarm…”
/in The News in The Press /by AdminVillage guards threaten. An article of Bahar Kılıçgedik of Taraf newspaper reports that Diyarbakır Institute for Political and Social Research (DISA) recently published their research on the village guard system […]
Books for the wounds of mother tongue
/in The News in The Press /by Admin“Education in Mother Tongue and Minority Rights”, “Minorities and the Right to Education in Mother Tongue in International Law” and “The Mother Tongue Wound” are only a few examples of […]
Can you heal a language wound?
/in The News in The Press /by AdminDiyarbakır Institute for Social and Political Research’s commissioned book “Language Wound: Turkey’s Problem of Not Using Mother Tongue in Education” was co-authored by three academicians and contains narratives of students, […]
Mandatory Turkish puts Kurdish pupils at disadvantage
/in The News in The Press /by AdminIn a village in eastern Turkey at 8.30 in the morning, around 20 children gather outside a small square building for the daily anit, the student pledge: “I am a Turk, I am […]
