Urfa deputy Ömer Öcalan's question proposal in the Kirmançkî dialect of Kurdish that he has presented in the parliament regarding the February 21- World Mother Language Day was rejected on the grounds that it was not Turkish.
Regarding the World Mother Language Day, HDP deputies offered a large number of Kurdish, Syriac and Arabic proposals and research proposals in the parliement and demanded legal status for Kurdish language.
Kurdish Language and Culture Network will launch the hashtag of “#herrojkurdi” on Twitter regarding February 21-World Mother Language Day.
HDP Spokesperson Günay Kubilay said that they will decide on their policies that will shape the political and organizational line of their parties in the next two years with their 4th congress on February 23.
According to a study conducted in Kurdish cities, the proportion of parents who said that they speak “only Kurdish” with their own parents came out to be 48 percent, while 13 percent of them spoke only Kurdish with their children.
Former Co-Mayor of Kızıltepe Municipality İsmail Asi and HDP and DBP executives of HDP and DBP were taken into custody with the raids to their houses in Mardin.
HDP and DBP Mardin provincial co-chairmen and 5 HDP PM member politicians were not released in their trial.
In Fatih district, Mehmet Yama, who has become the subject of police torture as he was trying to protect his newphew and the mother of his nephew, has been in intensive care for 5 days. Güler Yaman, who witnessed every moment of torture said, "They lynched him before my eyes with kicks, slaps, batons and gun stock”
Declaring that they will fight for the protection and improvement of the language, Kurdish Language and Culture Network raised the following call: "Kurds should strive to dominate Kurdish in all areas of life" in the press statement organized regarding the February 21-World Mother Language Day.
It was stated that with the support of the Turkished Armed Forces (TSK), the salafi groups attacking the town of Idlib were repelled with the air support of Russia. Turkish Ministry of National Defense announced that 2 soldiers lost their lives and 5 soldiers were injured due to the airstrikes.
Associations and institutions working on the protection and the development of Kurdish, which has faced constraints and prohibitions from the past to the present, worked almost as a laboratory. One of the leading institutions among these were İstanbul Kurdish Institute, which was closed down with a statuory decree.
7 people, including journalists Hakkı Boltan and İHD director Adnan Örhan, who were taken into custody in Diyarbakır, were released with judicial control decision.
Women who contribute to the family budget by selling handmade products in the markets of the narrow streets of Sığacık Kaleiçi in Seferihisar district, said, "Labour empowers us and being a strong woman is good."
The dead body of the 17-year-old Didem Turan, who has been living in the Meydan Neighborhood of Aşkale and has been missing for 10 days, was found in the Karasu River passing through the district.
11 people lost their lives and 5 were injured in the armed attack on two chicha cafes in Hanau, Germany. The German police announced that the attacker was found dead, while the Bild newspaper wrote that most of the people who died were Kurdish.