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[Turkey (( *]

Kurdish language course closes in Batman

Arif ARSLAN / BATMAN, DHA

Last year in Batman, the Private Kurdish Language Course had started with great fanfare; opening ceremonies had included around 30 thousand people. But it all came to an end two nights ago when course authorities removed the sign from outside the course and locked the doors for the final time. Though 500 people had received certificates from the course over the last 16 months, financial troubles linked to the general lack of students had finally brought the experiment to an end. /From Hurriyet


What do you say?? Lack of students!! Can people(I do not only mean the people in this forum but the politicians too) who thought that Kurdish was not practised because the government had forbid Kurdish lessons and the language comment on this please!! If you said so many people would want to go and learn Kurdish, then where are these people and students now??

[magikthrill]

the article states the the instituion was closed cause of financial troubles.

by posting this article you only make us suspect that Kurds are treated as second class citizens to the extent where they cant afford to keep a language institute unless a certain number of students is available.

ADDITIONALLY you show us that the Turkish government is unwilling to help finance a languge institution for one of tis communities.

againk, what point were you trying to prove with this article?

edited: i was quite harsh on my first post and realized it was turkey who posted the article and seems like a decent enough guy --> NOT because ive decided to conform the forums fascist rulings.

[Turkey (( *]

MagikThrill, why would the government help a language institution, when the country is trying to stop terrorism(nearly going into North Iraq) and has more important things to do??!! My point is the EU and other people talked soo much about Turkey restricting Kurdish language and not giving any rights to Kurds, and now that it has given the Kurdish courses a chance, there are no students for it! All the effort and time spent for this gone down the drain. while there are more important things as I stated above! And by posting this article I prove you that not many wants to learn Kurdish in Turkey. Don't you think??

[brother]

I wouldn't say nobody wants to learn kurdish but under the current financial difficulties in turkey not everybody can afford it imo.

[Turkey (( *]

Brother I agree with saying "nobody wants to learn" bit, and I have edited my reply above. But come on, there has to be more than 500 who would afford to learn Kurdish but doesn't!

[brother]

I would imagine that this 500 hundred would be spread all over Turkey and it would not be geographically appropriate to attend, but these are assumptions and are as likely to be as wrong as right.

[cannedmoose]

Hate to be facetious, but the title of this thread made it sound far more exciting than it turned out to be... I had visions of batman hunched over a schooldesk trying to learn Kurdish...



On the topic of the post itself, I can only see Kurdish language courses taking off if the Kurdish region is one day granted autonomy and is able to carry out the running of some of its business in Kurdish... then there would be a real need and demand for it. Nonetheless, 500 students in 16 months isn't small beer for one language learning institute. I suppose the only way the government could have supported it is by sending civil servants dealing with administration in Kurdish regions to learn the language.

[Turkey (( *]

Sorry to dissappoint you moose..

[demetriou_74]

Hate to be facetious, but the title of this thread made it sound far more exciting than it turned out to be... I had visions of batman hunched over a schooldesk trying to learn Kurdish...

and you say i have a short attention span.

must say i thought there was as scene in the new movie in kurdish.

[Yiannis]

must say i thought there was as scene in the new movie in kurdish.

Same here.