Erdogan regime continues crackdown on Kurds even in language – Details
While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime has continued to violate the sovereignty of neighboring Arab countries by claiming to pursue PKK elements, the Kurdish language has not escaped Ankara’s clampdown on the Kurds. Turkish police prevented a march that was to be launched in the Kartal region of Istanbul on the occasion of Kurdish Language Day.
The police did not reveal the reason for a specific ban on the march, according to the Turkish newspaper Zaman, which pointed out that after preventing the march, the crowd decided to hold a sit-in in Nizen Tawfiq square.
Secretary of Istanbul’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Farhat Enko and HDP bloc Deputy Chairman Meral Danesh Pachtach participated in the sit-in, accompanied by Kurdish songs.
The AKP government is accused of racism against the Kurds because of the constant restrictions on events that revive Kurdish culture and identity by erasing the Kurdish language.
Every year, on May 15, the Kurdish people celebrate Kurdish Language Day, since the Kurdish National Congress designated this day as the Kurdish Language Day in 2006. May 15 is the first edition of the Kurdish literary magazine Hawar, founded by Celadet Bedirxan in Damascus. The first edition was published on May 15, 1932.
The magazine continued to publish until August 15, 1943. It stopped after it published 57 issues, the first 23 of which were printed in Arabic and Latin, and then limited to Latin letters. The Latin Kurdish alphabet, which Celadet Bedirxan introduced and used in his magazine, is called the “Havar Alphabet”. Since then, on May 15th every year, Kurdish people celebrate the Day of the Kurdish Language, realizing that protecting the Kurdish language and enhancing its status is a national duty.
