Kurdish languages

Two bombing attacks took place on Monday morning in the HDP Kurdish political party offices in Turkey in two cities.

According to preliminary information, the strong explosions have caused severe damage to the offices, while many bystanders were wounded.

Turkish Education Minister Nabi Avc? admitted Turkey has failed to successfully teach English as a foreign language in schools, while also praising the education system's success teaching Turkish as a foreign language to Kurdish children, speaking to reporters in Ankara on May 12. 

Turkey?s top religious body, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has finally completed a five-year effort of translating the Quran into Kurdish.

Turkey?s first television network aimed at children in Kurdish will start broadcasting on March 21, the date of Nevruz, daily Radikal has reported.

President Erdo?an reiterated on March 17 that Turkey has no ?Kurdish problem.? In fact, this is the third time he has changed his mind on the subject and the second time it has happened on the eve of the general elections. Here is a timeline of Erdo?an?s oscillations on the question:

Anticipation is growing about a breakthrough on the Kurdish issue this Nevruz amid intense talks between the government and militants, but President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an turned back the clock several years on March 15 to claim that Turkey does not have any ?Kurdish problem,? arguing that Kurds have equal rights with the rest of the country.

Ya?ar Kemal, one of the monumental personalities of Turkey's recent history, an outstanding journalist and definitely the last grand master of Turkish literature, has walked to oblivion at the age of 91.

In collaboration with the Amsterdam Rast Theater, a performance in Kurdish of Shakespeare?s ?Hamlet,? produced by the Diyarbak?r City Theater in the eastern province of Van, has recently drawn great interest among locals.

The play was staged as the special monthly event for February of the Nüda Culture Center, which is affiliated with the Van Metropolitan Municipality.

Ha ha? You are naïve. You started reading this thinking there is a way of fighting the rednecks of Istanbul. No darlings, there is no way to fight them. They win all the time. They outnumbered you and me a long time ago? They are everywhere. They have taken the city?

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi's epic work, the "Masnavi," will soon be published in Kurdish and Ottoman Turkish following translation work by the Konya Metropolitan Municipality Cultural and Social Affairs Department.