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This International Day for Mother Language, Kurdish people continue fighting for their cultural and linguistic right in Turkey (north Kurdistan). In this report from Diyarbakir Hatice Kamer reports on the efforts to keep the Kurdish language alive in Turkey where Kurdish speakers are the second largest linguistic group.


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This International Day for Mother Language, Kurdish people continue fighting for their cultural and linguistic right in Turkey (north Kurdistan). In this report from Diyarbakir Hatice Kamer reports on the efforts to keep the Kurdish language alive in Turkey where Kurdish speakers are the second largest linguistic group.



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