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Antalya would be unable to teach anything to his students. That
would bring about severely disconnected communities living in the
same country but speaking different languages and are unable to com-
municate with each other. In order to lay the grounds for this so-called
"natural separation" the PKK is using this mask of the mother tongue.

They have invented this as the shortest way to completely isolate the
Southeast of the country and to establish a communist administration
therein to pressure the people of the region, as they like.

Sadi Somuncuoğlu, one of our former ministers, summarized the
situation as follows:

The primary goal of these discussions about language is to legal-
ize and legitimize the bloody terror targeting our very existence

under the guise of "language and cultural rights"; the second
goal is to ensure the switch to a "bilingual-two identity" state
structure. In this way, the path to fragmentize our country will
be opened. 125

This plot designed to divide the Turkish nation, which has lived
on the same lands for hundreds of years, should not deceive our Kur-
dish brothers. The Kurdish language should of course be taught in
schools; it should definitely be encouraged and kept alive and
enriched with literary, political and artistic works. The Kurdish lan-
guage should be preserved and widespread as an important value and
part of Turkish people. However, by attempting to make Turkish for-
gotten as a language and teaching Kurdish alone in the region, this
treacherous terror organization wants to establish a foundation to cre-

ate a very deeply-rooted problem, using language as a means to exter-
nalize and alienate our Kurdish mothers, fathers, grandfathers,
grandmothers and our Kurdish sisters and brothers from the rest
of Turkey and to use this as a means of separation.

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