In 1993, the first two parties collaborated with the Turkish army to wage a war against a PKK-led insurrection on the border. Vanly, president of the Kurdish Institute of Berlin, compared the Kurdish struggle for self-determination to the Irish movement. Both have had to travel a very difficult and treacherous journey to liberation. The Kurdish Institute in Berlin is a center of education for Kurdish language and culture. Within Turkey, where Kurds constitute almost a third of the total population, Kurds are not allowed to use their own language in schools or administrative and public offices.
Turkish law prohibits printing in the Kurdish language.
He wants to see an end to this policy. Permission to reprint granted if source is cited.