Silenced Minority.

Authors :: Bollag, Burton
Source :: Chronicle of Higher Education. 7/19/2002, Vol. 48 Issue 45, pA34. 2p. 3 Color Photographs.
Publication Year :: 2002
Abstract: Discusses the challenges faced by Kurdish students in Turkey as they try to request for optional courses on the Kurdish language. Information on efforts by officials to justify the ban on the use of Kurdish in education; Restrictions on speaking and publishing in Kurdish; Mistreatment cases of students in police custody; Effect on educational issues such as the right to an education taught in the native tongue.