You Don’t Like Kurdish? How About Chinese or Japanese?

Local authorities in Diyarbakir have found a creative means of criticising the ban on Kurdish: They have added Chinese to their ...

“My Mother Tongue” (3): Laz

According to Laz expert Sapan, the language is at a critical point where it may be lost. The government is also ...

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“My Mother Tongue” (1) : Greek, Armenian and Ladino

The Greek population is dwindling, and the Armenian and Ladino languages have also suffered from assimilation policies over the last decades. ...

Five Months Imprisonment for Kurdish Petition

Publisher Mehdi Tanrikulu has been sentenced to five months imprisonment for writing a petititon in Kurdish and for speaking Kurdish in ...

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Minority Report: Lack of Political Representation

The Minority Rights Group International has published a new report on the status of minority rights in Turkey. It has criticised ...

"Newroz" and "Kawa" Reason for Imprisonment?

A trade union representative in Kilis, southeastern Turkey, is on trial for using the letter "w" in two newspaper articles. ...

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Administrative Court Does Not Try Multilingualism

The case against the multilingual Sur municipality in Diyarbakir was dropped by an administrative court. ...

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