The Kurdish language has faced many challenges in recent history, including being banned at different times in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, with heavy restrictions often placed on Kurdish-language media ...
Launching Language: Turkey’s Kurdish TV and Societal Shifts Imagine a government that spent decades silencing a tongue suddenly broadcasting in it. That’s exactly what happened with Turkey’s TV launch ...
The Kurdish language is still not recognized by the Parliament, although there is a Kurdish TV channel on the state television now. The Parliament moved the Kurdish language from being an unknown ...