15:22, June 13, 2012
In his weekly address to the Justice and Development faction in the Turkish parliament, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the government will introduce Kurdish language elective courses in the country's public schools come September.
"Kurdish will be learned and taught as an elective lesson if there are a sufficient number of students demanding it. This is a historic step," said Erdoğan.
Critics remain unconvinced that the move goes far enough.
According to the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) which continues to press the addition of Kurdish as an official language in the country, the step falls short.
"There is nothing as despotic as teaching a mother tongue as an elective course," Gültan Kışanak, co-chairperson of the BDP, said in her group meeting yesterday.
Armenian News
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