DTP fury at records
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Hurriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Aralık 22, 2008 00:00
ANKARA - The Democratic Society Party, or DTP, submitted a motion to Parliament on Friday in relation to the incident that Kurdish was defined in parliamentary records as an "unknown language."
"Is the application one of the signs that can be evaluated as the rise of Nazism in our country?" the DTP asked.
"Are there categories as known and unknown languages in our legislation? If there are, what is the legal base for this? What is meant by unknown language? " DTP Şırnak deputy Hasip Kaplan asked Parliament Speaker Köksal Toptan. "You know that Azerbaijan President İlham Aliyev’s speech, which he delivered in the Parliament’s General Assembly, was recorded in Azerbeijani dialect. Taking into consideration two different approaches toward Kurdish and Azerbaijani languages, do you not think that rather than constitutional Turkish identity, ethnic Turkish identity is given priority?" he asked.
Kaplan said the parliamentary record was controversial when Turkish Radio and Television, or TRT, readies to broadcast in Kurdish on its new channel named "Heşt."
"Are there categories as known and unknown languages in our legislation? If there are, what is the legal base for this? What is meant by unknown language? " DTP Şırnak deputy Hasip Kaplan asked Parliament Speaker Köksal Toptan. "You know that Azerbaijan President İlham Aliyev’s speech, which he delivered in the Parliament’s General Assembly, was recorded in Azerbeijani dialect. Taking into consideration two different approaches toward Kurdish and Azerbaijani languages, do you not think that rather than constitutional Turkish identity, ethnic Turkish identity is given priority?" he asked.
Kaplan said the parliamentary record was controversial when Turkish Radio and Television, or TRT, readies to broadcast in Kurdish on its new channel named "Heşt."