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• Permission was given for Kurdish-language stage
plays to be performed.

• Kurdish-language music albums were brought out.

• Local religious figures were allowed to be employed
by the state.

• Defendants were allowed to present their defenses in their
mother tongue.

• The Turkish Language Institute published a Turkish-Kur-
dish dictionary.
• The Anadolu News Agency began publishing in Kurdish.

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• On March 8 , 2015 the government announced a Southeast
Anatolia Project (GAP) action plan. The plan involves 115 projects
with a budget of 26.7 billion aimed at regenerating the Southeast,
in fields from agriculture to tourism and from education to health.

• The Holy Qur'an was published in Kurdish.
• Large numbers of dams, airports, hospitals and schools were

built in the region.
• Dozens of laws were amended in terms of democratization
and the Peace Process.

These matters alone make it very clear that historic progress and

major advances were made. The current government has adopted
very different measures than the governments that have gone before
it, made major steps toward improving the well being of our Kurdish
brothers and stood up for Kurdish rights. These advances apply not

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