content tagged with international mother language day

Cemetery visit to the graveyard of languages

ONE CENTURY, ONE REGIME AND MOTHER TONGUE | ARMENIAN

Cemetery visit to the graveyard of languages

With the first choice, we have the chance to visit the graveyards of languages each February 21 with a bundle of carnations in our hands. With the second one, we will be waiting in the same graveyard for visitors to come with flowers in their hands.

23 February 2023 Pakrat Estukyan

First century of the Republic and Kurdish language policies

ONE CENTURY, ONE REGIME AND MOTHER TONGUE | KURDISH

First century of the Republic and Kurdish language policies

Denial and assimilation continue to be the basis of the policies pursued regarding the Kurdish language since the foundation of the Republic.

21 February 2023 Aren Yıldırım

One century, one regime, and the right to mother tongue

FEBRUARY 21 MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY

One century, one regime, and the right to mother tongue

As bianet, on International Mother Language Day, we want to explore the state of mother language as we enter the 100th year of the Republic. In this series of articles, we tracked the traces of the policies pursued with regard to language such as Zaza, Georgian, Armenian and Kurdish.

21 February 2023

'Ban on education in mother language torments Kurdish children in Turkey'

MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY

'Ban on education in mother language torments Kurdish children in Turkey'

Young Kurdish people remember their first years at school as a nightmare. Tan says, “As we could not spell the words, the teacher held us at school till 9 pm. He was saying, ‘You are gonna learn this language’.”

22 February 2022

Struggle for Kırmancki/Zazaki*: Speaking your mother language is not separatism

RESEARCHER GÜNTAŞ-ALDATMAZ

Struggle for Kırmancki/Zazaki*: Speaking your mother language is not separatism

Dr. Nadire Güntaş-Aldatmaz says, “Children; you are more beautiful when you speak the language of your mother, father, maternal and paternal grandmother.”

22 February 2022 Evrim Kepenek

'Surprising': 5-year-old Lusin talks about Homshetsi on Mother Language Day

FEBRUARY 21

'Surprising': 5-year-old Lusin talks about Homshetsi on Mother Language Day

“Homshetsi is a special language, Homshetsi is a beautiful language. I would like to sing you a song,” says Lusin Sultan, speaking to bianet on the occasion of February 21 International Mother Language Day.

21 February 2022 Evrim Kepenek

27 languages, 120 signatories: ‘Right to language is a human right’

MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY

27 languages, 120 signatories: ‘Right to language is a human right’

On International Mother Language Day, the Network for Monitoring, Documenting and Reporting on Language Rights (DHİBRA) released a statement in the mother languages of Turkey and requested the removal of obstacles to mother languages.

21 February 2022

Campaign to make Kurdish an official language in Turkey

KURDISH INSTITUTIONS MEET

Campaign to make Kurdish an official language in Turkey

Linguists, associations and writers working in and on Kurdish as well as HDP Co-Chair Sancar and DBP Co-Chairs Bayındır and Aydeniz have met in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır in the wake of International Mother Language Day.

22 February 2021

‘Right of mother tongue-based health is above politics’

REQUEST IN 6 MOTHER LANGUAGES

‘Right of mother tongue-based health is above politics’

The Şişli Branch of the Health and Social Service Laborers Union (SES) has raised its request for healthcare services in mother language by releasing a statement in six mother languages and English to mark the International Mother Language Day.

22 February 2021

DHİBRA raises 4 requests in 19 mother languages of Turkey with 99 signatories

FEBRUARY 21 INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY

DHİBRA raises 4 requests in 19 mother languages of Turkey with 99 signatories

On the occasion of February 21 International Mother Language Day, the Network for Monitoring, Documenting and Reporting on Language Rights (DHİBRA) has declared its requests in 19 mother languages of Turkey.

20 February 2021

HDP: Bilingual Parliamentary Questions Returned Without Being Processed

INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY

HDP: Bilingual Parliamentary Questions Returned Without Being Processed

HDP has announced that the bilingual Parliamentary questions and inquiries submitted by its 22 MPs in mother languages on the occasion of International Mother Language Day have been returned to the MPs without being processed.

21 February 2020

Mother Language Teachers Speak out on International Mother Language Day

Mother Language Teachers Speak out on International Mother Language Day

Ahead of February 21 International Mother Language Day, five teachers of “Living Languages and Dialects” spoke to bianet Turkish. Here is a snapshot of their remarks about their own struggles for their mother languages and teaching experiences.

21 February 2020 Ayşegül Özbek

‘When a Language Disappears, a Community Dies’

FEBRUARY 21 INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY

‘When a Language Disappears, a Community Dies’

Over 40 civil society actors of the Network for Monitoring, Documenting and Reporting on Language Rights (DHİBRA) have marked the International Mother Language Day in 12 languages: “Happy ‘Mother Language Day’ to all the languages of the world!”

21 February 2020 Evrim Kepenek

Authorities Inquire Kurdish Instructing Teachers

Authorities Inquire Kurdish Instructing Teachers

Education Ministry officials in Diyarbakır province allegedly ordered the list of teachers who taught in Kurdish on February 21, International Mother Language Day.

28 February 2014

Maybe You'd Understand Someday

INTERNATIONAL MOTHER TONGUE DAY

Maybe You'd Understand Someday

I would like Turkish language to understand how genuinely beautiful, colorful and really meaningful is Bianet's opening page on February 21, 2012.

21 February 2012 Işıl Cinmen