ZAZA DERSIM DIALECT KURDISH IS MINORITY LANGUAGE
For many decades the Kurdish language was ignored and banned from public use and. Turkish became the lingua franca.
Shameful for Europe as well as being a dangerous signal that could be seen as being tacitly supportive of repressive Turkish policies.
I will explore what’s happening to endangered languages from Ainu to Zaza. Why do languages become endangered, and how have some speakers worked to ensure a future for their native tongues?
The Zazas are a people in eastern Anatolia who natively speak the Zaza language. Their heartland, the Dersim region, consists of Tunceli, Bingöl provinces and parts of Elazığ, Erzincan and Diyarbakır provinces. Some of the Zazas consider themselves ethnic Kurds, part of the Kurdish nation, and they are often described
These are spoken in the north westernmost part of Kurdistan in the triangle between Sivas, Bitlis, and Diyarbakir. Interestingly-and confusingly-, Zaza speakers in Dersim (present-dayTunceli) call their own tongue Kirmanci; and the local Kurmanci dialect Herewere ... or Kurdasi; Dersimi Zaza is also called So-be ... by local Kurmanci speakers. ... Zaza is marked off from the neighbouring Kurmanci dialects by a number of phonetic differences ... and morphological features ... and probably a morphological borrowing from Armenian. ... On the whole, Zaza seems to have undergone a relatively strong influence from Armenian, which was spoken in the northernmost parts of the area now almost exclusively inhabited by Kurds up till the early 20th century
Some Zaza people cannot write in their native tongue, although they can speak it, while others know no Zaza at all, said Tüzün. “We will initiate a special program to overcome such problems.”
An audio drama based on the Jesus Film, taken from the gospel of Luke in the Christian Bible Lord jesus teach pray zaza dersim dialect Zaza, Kirmanjki
Xeylasi pero hometa marê bimbarek vo
Lord's Jesus Christ Prayer in Zaza Language
Piyê ma Ya piyê mao ke asmên de, namey to mıbarek bo. Qılawuzê to bêro. Mıradê to bıbo hem erd u hem ki asmên de, Nana mawa vêrey ewro bıde ma. Se ke ma gunekaranê xo ef kenime, tı ki gunanê ma ef ke. Ma mesınevne, ma xırabiye ra rareyne. Çıra ke na padişaine, no qılawuz u qeder ebediyen ê toyê. Amin!John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:16 in zaza (yohana:3:16-17 )Wayire Dina hometa hora heni has kerdene ke,na servet ra laze huyo ke bi, o ki ho çım ra vet,rusna.rusna ke, her kes eyre itıqate ho biyaro,vind mebo,meres mebo,meşero; va sola wayire weşiya de beaxıriye bo.Heqi laze ho nerusna riye dina ke homete bıonco dare. Rusna ke, dina eve deste dey bıxeleşiyo
LANGUAGE POLICY IN TURKEY AND ITS EFFECT ON THE KURDISH. LANGUAGE.
Kurdish media organizations, associations, language schools, and cultural institutions have been shut down.
The human rights situation of Kurds in Turkey. Kurds have had a long history of discrimination and massacres perpetrated against them by the Turkish government. Massacres have periodically occurred against the Kurds since the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923.
The use of Kurdish language, dress, folklore, and names were banned and the Kurdish-inhabited areas remained under martial law until 1946. In an attempt to deny their existence, the Turkish government categorized Kurds as "Mountain Turks" until 1991.
The words "Kurds", "Kurdistan", or "Kurdish" were officially banned by the Turkish government.Following the military coup of 1980, the Kurdish language was officially prohibited in public and private life.
Many people who spoke, published, or sang in Kurdish were arrested and imprisoned. Since lifting of the ban in 1991, the Kurdish population of Turkey has long sought to have Kurdish included as a language of instruction in public schools as well as a subject. Currently, it's illegal to use the Kurdish language as an instruction language in private and public schools.
Thus, learning a foreign language is one of the most effective and practical ways to increase intelligence, keep your mind sharp, and buffer your brain against aging. Second language studies help students, regardless of race, gender, or academic level, do better in other areas of study across the board including improved
Education
In Turkey, the only language of instruction in the education system is Turkish;
Kurdish is not allowed as primary language in the education. The Kurdish population of Turkey has long sought to have Kurdish included as a language of instruction in public schools as well as a subject. An experiment at running private Kurdish-language teaching schools was closed in 2004 because of the poor economic situation of local people.
Kurdish is permitted as a subject in universities, but in reality there are only few pioneer courses. However, currently Kurdish is elective among other lessons in some schools.
Multiculturalism, Assimilation
Due to the large number of Turkish Kurds, successive governments have viewed the expression of a Kurdish identity as a potential threat to Turkish unity, a feeling that has been compounded since the armed rebellion initiated by the PKK in 1984. One of the main accusations of cultural assimilation relates to the state's historic suppression of the Kurdish language.
Kurdish publications created throughout the 1960s and 1970s were shut down under various legal pretexts. Following the military coup of 1980, the Kurdish language was officially prohibited in government institutions.
US Congressman Bob Filner spoke of a "cultural genocide", stressing that "a way of life known as Kurdish is disappearing at an alarming rate".[34] Mark Levene suggests that the assimilation practices were not limited to cultural assimilation, and that the events of the late 19th century continued until 1990.
Certain academics[who?] have claimed that successive Turkish governments adopted a sustained genocide program against Kurds, aimed at their assimilation.[35] The genocide hypothesis remains, however, a minority view among historians, and is not endorsed by any nation or major organisation. Desmond Fernandes, a Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, breaks the policy of the Turkish authorities into the following categories:
Forced assimilation program, which involved, among other things, a ban of the Kurdish language, and the forced relocation of Kurds to non-Kurdish areas of Turkey.
The banning of any organizations opposed to category one.
The violent repression of any Kurdish resistance.
Shameful for Europe as well as being a dangerous signal that could be seen as being tacitly supportive of repressive Turkish policies.
World Kurdish TV station closed down UKMed Nuce shutdown shameful for Europe as well as being a dangerous signal that could be seen as being tacitly supportive of repressive Turkish policies.
Med-TV broadcasts Kurdish language programmes across Europe
Eutelsat has shut down Kurdish broadcasters in the past, as in 2012 when it suspended Roj TV.
Its justification at the time: Consequently, Roj TV no longer has a license to broadcast in Denmark and signed a broadcasting agreement with the satellite provider Intelsat instead.
Between 1983 and 1991, it was forbidden to publicize, publish and/or broadcast in any language other than Turkish, unless that language was the first official language of a country that Turkey has diplomatic relations with.[37] Though this ban technically applied to any language, it had the largest effect on the Kurdish language, which is not the first official language of any country, despite being widely spoken in the Kurdistan region.[38]
In June 2004, Turkey's public television TRT began broadcasting a half-hour Kurdish program,[39] and on March 8, 2006, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) allowed two TV channels (Gün TV and Söz TV) and one radio channel (Medya FM) to have limited service in the Kurdish language. This legislation came into force as an effort to meet one of the European Union’s requirements for membership in its talks with Turkey. The new regulation will allot five hours of weekly radio broadcast and four of television.[40]
Despite these reforms, use of Kurdish in the public sphere and government institutions was still restricted until several years ago. On June 14, 2007, the Interior Ministry took a decision to remove Abdullah Demirbaş from his office as elected mayor of the Sur district of Diyarbakır. They also removed elected members of the municipal council. The high court endorsed the decision of the ministry and ruled that "giving information on various municipal services such as culture, art, environment, city cleaning and health in languages other than Turkish is against the Constitution.[41]
This is despite the fact that according to the above-mentioned municipality, 72% of the people of the district use Kurdish in their daily lives. In another case, the mayor of Diyarbakır, Osman Baydemir, is being subjected to a similar set of interrogations and judicial processes. His case is related to the use of the Kurdish phrase Sersala We Pîroz Be (Happy New Year) in the new year celebration cards issued by the municipality. The prosecutor wrote: "It was determined that the suspect used a Kurdish sentence in the celebration card, ‘Sersala We Piroz Be’ (Happy New Year.) I, on behalf of the public, demand that he be punished under Article 222/1 of the Turkish Penal Code".[41]
At present these issues have been solved since quite a long time; the official website of the Municipality today is trilingual: Turkish, Kurdish and English.
WORLD NEWS JANUARY 30, 2018
Soccer: Turkey bans German-Kurdish player for life over 'ideological propaganda'
Deniz Naki, 28, was banned from all competitive games for three years and six months and charged 273,000 liras ($72,000) for “separatist and ideological propaganda”, the TFF said. Procedurally, any suspension longer than three years in Turkey constitutes a life ban, meaning Naki will not be able to play soccer in the country again.
Naki shared a video on social media on Sunday calling for participation in a rally in the German city of Cologne to protest against Turkey’s military offensive into northern Syria’s Afrin region.
Turkish authorities have cracked down on public expressions of dissent about the ground offensive against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia. More than 300 people have been detained for social media posts criticizing the campaign and a prosecutor has issued detention warrants for 11 top doctors.
On Saturday, German magazine Der Spiegel, citing Naki’s lawyer, said the player wanted to terminate his contract with his Turkey-based team Amedspor due to security concerns and intended to stay in Germany.
29 Jun 2017 - Kurdish or pro-Kurdish journalists are some of the principal victims of the post-coup crackdown on free speech. According to the Free Journalist Society, a now-banned, pro-Kurdish news media watchdog, 173 journalists are now in Turkish prisons; of those, 50 worked for Kurdish or pro-Kurdish news outlets
Kurdish Language Policy in Turkey. The policy of Republican Turkey since its establishment in 1923, is a typical case of what has been called "linguicide" or "linguistic genocide" (cf. ... Forcing the Kurds to abondon their language and become native speakers of Turkish is the primary goal of the language policy.
Turkish state's assimilationist policy towards the Kurds and theKurdish language in Turkey. It studies how the Turkish nation- alist elites, the Kemalists, have throughout the 20th century systematically sup- pressed the Kurdish language as part of their aim to construct a homogenous.
I went there a lot, talked to the teachers, and made sure that the language program did not amount to Kurdish nationalist indoctrination,” he explains. “The classes were excellent.” For years Ahmet has criticized both the Turkish government's brutal assimilation policies and the violence of theKurdistan
Turkish state sought to create a nation-state based on one language and attempted to eliminate the use of other languages, particularly Kurdish, through severe regulations and prohibitions. Firstly, this thesis traces the language planning policies in the 20th century which resulted in the invisibilization
World Kurdish TV station closed down UK
Med-TV broadcasts Kurdish language programmes across Europe
Protestors have gathered outside the office of the UK's commercial television watchdog after a London-based Kurdish TV station was shut down for broadcasting
Kurdish language station Med-TV has had its licence suspended by the Independent Television Commission.
The ITC said several broadcasts by the Kurdish-language company Med-TV had included
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – The French satellite provider Eutelsat halted the broadcast of the Belgium-based Kurdish MedNuce TV channel on Monday, upon requests by the Turkish Government. The Turkish ... One of the channels closed was Turkey's sole Kurdish childrens'
French satellite operator Eutelsat has shut down Kurdish broadcaster Med Nuce TV at Ankara's request, due to what it said were formal media regulations.
Med Nuce shutdown shameful for Europe as well as being a dangerous signal that could be seen as being tacitly supportive of repressive Turkish policies.
Eutelsat has shut down Kurdish broadcasters in the past, as in 2012 when it suspended Roj TV. Its justification at the time: A court in Copenhagen found that the channel had connections to the PKK. Consequently, Roj TV no longer has a license to broadcast in Denmark and signed a broadcasting agreement with the satellite provider Intelsat instead.
Eutelsat did not say how long the channel will be off the air. Employees at Med Nuce presume that broadcasts will be suspended for as long as Turkey's state of emergency remains in effect, thus for at least three months.
15 Jan 2018 - Since the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923, the country's Kurdish minority — an estimated 15.3 million people or around one-fifth of Turkey's population — has faced repression, often restricted from expressing their culture or even speaking the Kurdish language. The Kurds, sometimes described as ...
1 February 2018 – On Mother Language Day, PEN International wishes to highlight the sustained repression of Kurdish culture and language in Turkey, the impact of which is becoming ever more harrowing.
Kurdish and pro-Kurdish journalists and media outlets have been among the principal victims of the crackdown on free speech that followed the attempted coup of July 2016.
Most pro-Kurdish and Kurdish-language media outlets have now been closed down. Since 1 January 2017, pursuant to a decision by the Turkish Press and Advertisement Council, ‘all font and text except advertisement on any print press must be in Turkish’.
At least 50 journalists of Kurdish or pro-Kurdish outlets languish in prison. In a prominent example reporter and editor Nedim Türfent, who was covering clashes between the Turkish army and the PKK, was arrested and charged with ‘membership of a terrorist organisation’ and ‘making terrorist propaganda’ on account of his reporting and social media posts.
During pre-trial detention, he was held in solitary confinement for over a year, and although 20 of 21 witnesses who appeared in court claimed that they gave evidence after having been tortured by the police, he was found guilty and sentenced to 8 years and 9 months’ imprisonment in December 2017.
In another example, in March 2017 journalist, painter and poet Zehra Doğan was convicted of ‘propagandising for a terrorist organisation’ for her work as a painter and journalist. She is currently serving a sentence of 2 years, 9 months and 22 days.
The criminal charges against her relate to a painting; in which she recreated a photograph by the Turkish military taken during the five-month curfew imposed on the town Nusaybin, a newspaper article in which she reported on the fighting between the Turkish army and the PKK in Nusaybin, and her social media activity.
Since the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923, which enshrined a mono-cultural national identity, the country’s large Kurdish minority has often been banned from expressing its culture or from speaking the Kurdish language. Towards the end of the previous decade, President Erdogan loosened some of these restrictions, but the repression of the Kurdish population has come back in full force since the breakdown of the peace process between the Turkish authorities and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in July 2015.
Inside Turkey’s revived war against the Kurds
Turkey’s Kurds have long criticized the government for what they perceive as inaction against ISIS inside the country and along its border. What’s more, many Turkish Kurds accuse the government of supporting the Islamist militants against Kurdish fighters in Syria—an allegation the Turkish government denies.
“No one is immune anymore. Being Kurdish continues to be a crime, something that needs defending against.”
Demirbas said he remained hopeful for a more democratic and multicultural Turkey, but was worried that a dark period lay ahead. Still, he was confident that his own days behind bars were a thing of the past.
Earlier this month, he was once again arrested.
His wife and other son, who recently finished serving compulsory national military service—an agonizing, existential reality for many Kurds—refused to comment on the case, citing security concerns.
“No one is immune anymore, especially leaders like [Demirbas] who are a source of hope,” said Abdel Selem, the regional secretary for the Diyarbakir branch of the Human Rights Association, a Turkish NGO. “Being Kurdish continues to be a crime, something that needs defending against.”
Cedinkaya, for his part, said he had barely slept for weeks after failing to protect his detained son. He feared his son would be forgotten behind bars like so many others—a haunting fate he never thought would befall his apolitical family.
“We’re just simple people. We haven’t fought a day in our lives. We don’t even go to rallies or protests,” he told me. “We’re just tired … tired of waking up and wishing we were born somewhere else.”
Renewed violence after the end of the ceasefire has seen thousands killed and wounded. Scores of historical sites and buildings have moreover been destroyed. The Sur district in Diyarbakir, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been the site of some of the fiercest fighting and entire neighbourhoods have been demolished. Some government-appointed authorities, who have partially replaced democratically elected mayors and officials in Kurdish-majority municipalities, have taken down cultural monuments throughout the region. For instance, in the city of Bazid the statue of the prominent classic Kurdish writer Ehmedê Xanî was removed.
Meanwhile, the Turkish authorities have taken to persecuting those who call for peace. For instance, criminal proceedings have been instituted against Academics for Peace, a diverse group who signed a declaration calling for peace in Turkey’s south-east in January 2016, and who are facing terrorism-related charges as a consequence. Recently, after the central council of the Turkish Medical Association issued a short statement to express its opposition to the on-going military operations by the Turkish army in a Kurdish-majority area in northern Syria, senior council members were arrested and accused of propagandising for terrorist organisations.
PEN slams Turkey's 'repression' of Kurdish language, culture. By Rudaw 21/2/2018. A Kurdishwoman dances in front of a Newroz fire in Diyarbakir in March 2017. ... International Mother Language Day, a global association of writers is condemning Turkey's “sustained repression of Kurdish culture and language.”
Take Action
Write to the Turkish authorities:
Demanding the immediate and unconditional release Nedim Türfent and Zehra Doğan, and all others who are imprisoned solely for having exercised their right to freedom of expression;
Calling on Turkey to lift the state of emergency;
Calling on Turkish authorities to respect the right of Kurdish people to use and promote their own language and culture and to study in their mother tongue;
Calling for an end to the repression of Kurdish culture and heritage and instead to promote Kurdish language and linguistic rights;
Calling on Turkish authorities to permit the re-opening of Kurdish language media outlets; and
Calling for an end to the persecution of those who call for peace in the conflict between the Turkish authorities and the Kurdish population both within and outside of Turkey.
February 22, 2018 Turkey PEN slams Turkey’s ‘repression’ of Kurdish language, culture
As the world is celebrating International Mother Language Day, a global association of writers is condemning Turkey’s “sustained repression of Kurdish culture and language.”
PEN International slammed Turkey for its crackdown on Kurdish media, the “principal victims” in widespread arrests and restrictions imposed after the July 2016 attempted coup and following the breakdown of the PKK peace process.
“Most pro-Kurdish and Kurdish-language media outlets have now been closed down” and some 50 Kurdish journalists are in jail, PEN stated.
International Mother Language Day was introduced by the United Nations in 2000 “to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.”
The theme of this year’s day is promoting development through linguistic diversity.
“To foster sustainable development, learners must have access to education in their mother tongue and in other languages,” the UN stated. “Local languages, especially minority and indigenous, transmit cultures, values and traditional knowledge, thus play an important role in promoting sustainable futures.”
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