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Kurdish name on Turkish ID card - Hurriyet Daily News and Econom
The Population Registry Office in the Çankaya district of Ankara has allowed a father to give his daughter a Kurdish name written with letters in the Kurdish alphabet. The Population Registry Office in the Çankaya district of Ankara has allowed a father to give his daughter a Kurdish name written with letters in the Kurdish alphabet, according to the daily Hürriyet. The officer in the registration office wrote the baby girl’s name, Hêvî Jiyan, by using letters î and ê, which are not in Turkish alphabet. “Hêvî means hope and Jiyan means life. When I went to the register office to give a Kurdish name for my daughter, if there had been any problem, I would have left the name part empty,” said Kenan Kırkaya, the father of the baby. “My wife’s name is Newruz and they did not write her name with a ‘w’ at the time.
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Turkey, Kurds and a World of Silence - Mideast Youth - Thinking
by Goran (Kurdistan/USA) They say that silence can be deafening. This week the atrocities continued against the Kurds in Turkey and despite the footage to prove it, hardly anyone flinched. The international community remained largely silent, the media didn’t bother doing anything with the pictures or videos, and the headlines continued reporting everything else happening in this world from California to Tibet… Earlier in the week , I had reported about the Turkish forces’ brutality against Kurds who were trying to celebrate the old New year or Newroz holiday.
The worst violence erupted in the city of Van Bloody clashes have erupted at cities in south-eastern Turkey between police and demonstrators during celebrations of the Nowruz spring festival. More than 130 people were arrested and scores injured in the battles. In the city of Van, police used batons, tear gas and water cannon on protesters who hurled rocks and chanted slogans in support of the PKK Kurdish rebel group. On Friday, protesters shouted the name of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan during Nowruz celebrations in Diyarbakir, but police did not intervene. Turkey said its week-long offensive in northern Iraq last month targeted bases used by up to 3,000 Kurdish rebels as a springboard for attacks across the border.
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