We want to protect human rights at the same time that we want to save human life. It is time for the death fasts to end. He added they would visit F-type prisons to analyze the conditions and talk with prisoners. Some politicians in Turkey say there is no language called Kurdish. There are newspapers, and television and radio broadcasting.
Language is a person's most valuable possession.
The mother tongue is the only way of cultural and self-expression. I believe that the pressure in this area reduces the chances of the Kurdish people forming an attachment to the state, which acts roughly toward them. Usually people who are not separatist or Islamists are jailed for very simple political arguments over very simple issues. The Council of Europe supports the secular regime established by Ataturk, and in no way supports terrorism. It supports the use of the mother tongue.