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Turkish daily News June 24, 2002 Main opposition True Path Party (DYP) leader Tansu Ciller said education language in state schools has to remain Turkish but private Kurdish education courses could be considered. Ciller, who met with Motherland Party (ANAP) leader Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz, one of the leading supporters of easing curbs on Kurdish education and broadcasting rights, said her party would not accept introduction of Kurdish as an education language in state schools. Ciller said her party has always defended that Turkish ought to be the sole education language of Turkey. "There is nothing to discuss on this issue," Ciller said dashing hopes that her party could cooperate with the Democratic Left Party (DSP) of Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit and ANAP of Yilmaz in easing restrictions on Kurdish education and broadcasting rights. The three-way coalition government could not reconcile their differences on Kurdish education and broadcasting rights, as well as on the lifting of the death penalty, with DSP and ANAP supporting the reform move and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) of Deputy Prime Minister Devlet Bahceli opposing. Ciller
said her party could accept only teaching of Kurdish at private courses.
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