Meantime, the SOHR also pointed to the Turkish army's continued attacks on
Kurdish military positions in Northern Aleppo, and said there is a good chance that the Turkish Army has killed the US soldier near Aleppo on April 28.
Heuristically, he adds that "the absence of a
Kurdish alphabet appropriate to the sounds of the
Kurdish language limited the possibilities for a cohesive literary
Kurdish language" (17).
Depicting the Turkish military engagements in neighbouring Syria, a news report published in January 27 in The Economist entitled "Into the Abyss" stated that, "Seventy two Turkish fighter jets cut through the skies above northwest Syria on January 20, dropping bombs on the
Kurdish enclave of Afrin, while thousands of Turkish troops moved at the border.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered the retaking of Kirkuk all the disputed areas claimed by the
Kurdish Regional Government and the central authorities in Baghdad.
Kurdish secession moves will destabilise Iraq even further.
Kurdish security and the city police erected checkpoints across the city after a Kurd was killed in a clash with the guards of a Turkmen political party office in the city.
However, major political divisions within the Syrian
Kurdish community and their respective regional and political patrons may undermine their chance for autonomy.
In a statement issued Friday, the Initiative also denounced the National
Kurdish Council's accession to the opposition "Syrian Coalition", considering such moves as "a grave mistake against the
Kurdish people and Syria".
Turkey announces plans to introduce elective Kurdish-language instruction in schools, a step aimed at easing tension that
Kurdish minority activists argued didn't go far enough.
The Kurds are an ancient people, and the
Kurdish language, which is of Indo-European origin, is the fourth largest language of the Middle East after Arabic, Iranian and Turkish.
Activists in Office:
Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey
Turkey: A Turkish university in the mainly
Kurdish southeast on Monday began the country s first
Kurdish undergraduate classes as the Govt comes under fire to broaden cultural and education rights for its
Kurdish population.
Kurdish politicians and activists have been aggressively promoting official use of
Kurdish in recent months as part of their growing demands for regional autonomy - a goal shared by rebels whose fight has killed tens of thousands of people so far.
