‘Kurdish people should use their language in all areas of life in response to assimilation policies’

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‘Kurdish people should use their language in all areas of life in response to assimilation policies’

In 1999, the General Assembly of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted February 21 as “International Mother Language Day”, which has been celebrated as thus since 2000. According to the 'Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger' published in March 2013 by UNESCO, which declared 2008 as the “International Year of Languages”, 40 percent of the world's 7,000 languages, i.e. 2,500 languages, are under …