The speech devoted to protection of the Kurdish language, Ahmet Turk started in Turkish. “We are not against the Turkish language as the state language of the country, but we demand to remove interdictions for using of the Kurdish one”, Turk said. Then, leader of the Public Democratic Party said about continuing speech in Kurdish. At the same moment the broadcast was interrupted.
According to the TRT representative, they cut of the broadcast in accordance with the Constitution of Turkey prohibiting speaking another language in the parliament. Ahmet Turk called the situation a paradox because the first TV in Kurdish TRT6 had started broadcasting on 1 January, 2009 on permission from the PM of Turkey.
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