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our country; courses and associations should be instituted for teach-
ing the language, the number of works in Kurdish should increase and
Kurdish songs should be listened to more.

The initiatives of our government in the last decade on this mat-
ter are very promising. The launch of TRT Kurdi, and various other
openings for Kurdish, and most important of all, the preparation of
the Qur'an's translation into Kurdish by the Directorate of the Reli-
gious Affairs are substantial improvements. The fact that the Qur'an

has not been published in Kurdish till now shows the severity of the
pressure on Kurdish language. It is well known that the Directorate of
Religious Affairs is making preparations also for printing the transla-
tion of the Qur'an in other languages and dialects in Turkey. This
should be viewed as very good news and it will be highly beneficial to
undertake such work in Turkey in other languages such as Albanian,
Armenian and Greek as well.

On the matter of native language: Our Kurdish brothers have to
be very careful on this matter because the discussion on native lan-
guage is deliberately plotted by the PKK as a tactic in order to dis-

criminate between Turks and Kurds living in the same country. The
PKK has always resorted to taking advantage of Kurdish nationalism
as a veil to conceal its communist attacks or utilize it as a justification
for its terrorism. That is why they have brought this topic of native
language to the agenda in order to make it seem as if their intention is
to save the Kurds. We need to recall here once again: It is obvious that
the bloody attacks that the PKK has started again is not for the salva-
tion of our Kurdish brothers.

Şemdin Sakık explained why the condition for "Using Kurdish as
a native language in the public domain" was added to the list of
demands in the hunger strike started by "PKK's coercion" in 58 pris-

ons all over Turkey by the 483 prisoners affiliated with the PKK and
PJAK:

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