EU Lajendijk: Turkey can't enter in Europe without solving Kurdish question

09 February 2011
European Parliament Foreign Relations Commission and Turkey-EU Joint

Parliamentary Commission former member Joost Lagendijk evaluated

Turkey's EU process and the last phase reached in Kurdish question to ANF.

Lagendijk expressed that he has a high opinion of 'Democratic Autonomy Project’

of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), noting that the AKP (Justice and Development

Party) government hasn’t gone further than taking a few steps at first. 

“An initiative can not be the subject while Kurds are still not permitted to write the

signboards and to receive education in their mother language. The bilingualism problem

should be resolved at first. The way should be opened to enable people speak in

their mother tongue and the bounds should be clarified. Some steps have been taken so far

but there hasn’t been any positive development yet”...

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