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Baydemir: Kurdish Should Be Tauhgt At Common Schools

DIYARBAKIR (DIHA) - July 19, 2005- Metropolitan Mayor of Diyarbakır Osman Baydemir, stating it is not possible to improve Kurdish only by means of private courses, said Kurdish should be tauhgt at official schools and supported in public domains.

Metropolitan Mayor Baydemir, Mayor of Yenişehir Fırat Anlı and Director-General of the Diyarbakır Water and Canalization Affairs Veysi Ayus have examined infrastructural project carried out for 450 Evler Mahallesi. Baydemir, after receiving information from the experts, said they made infrastructural works in 18 separate fields of Diyarbakır." We will have finished a 2-km-pipeline and the intermediary connections 7200 meters at length in 10 days. Subsequently, landscape and block pavement are both to be built by Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality". The metropolitan mayor also underlined that the metropolitan municipality would continue to providing municipal services at full pelt.

'Kurdish should be supported in public domains'

To a question concerning the news that Private Batman Kurdish Course was closed, Baydemir said " To be able to keep our languages and cultural possessions those languages spoken in Turkey apart form Turkish or Kurdish should be boosted in public domains; otherwise, it is not possible to make Kurdish and like languages come alive. Therefore, Kurdish should definitely be taught at official schools. People should have the chance to be able to learn Kurdish. Moreover, Kurdish should be given as an elective course in western cities. To maintain a language a language, which has been ignored for decades, is not possible with private courses"

'Right to exist is holy'

To another question about Coşkun Kırandi, a soldier from Trabzon who was intercepted and detained by HPG forces, Baydemir said neither his right to exist nor his safety of life should be harmed.He should be handed over to his family as soon as possible. There is a need to an environment with peace and without conflicts for our humans can leave in peace and at ease.

When asked ''Why did you not put your signature on a declaration prepared in relation to the kill of Hikmet Fidan?", Baydemir said, "I have not heard anything of such a statement, however, there is no legitimate side of violation of the right to exist."


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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