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The Kurdish language in the language of the largest minority in Turkey, the Kurds. Kurdish has been forbidden to be spoken for several decades since the foundation of Turkey.

In the Inspectorates Generals the use of the Kurdish language was prohibited in Governmental buildings, but also in school or the market place and a Turkish official was able to punish the use of the Kurdish language according to law which included fixed tariffs for each word in the Kurdish language. Also, Turkey views the demand for education in Kurdish language or the teaching of the Kurdish language as supporting terrorist activities by the PKK. People have been imprisoned for having communicated in the Kurdish language or having used one of the letters Q, W or X in their writings. Politicians who offered public services in Kurdish have been accused of disseminating terrorist propaganda. The mayor of Sur Abdullah Demirbas defended himself arguing that Municipalities that offer their services in the languages of German, English or Polish like Antalya or Alanya have not been prosecuted for the same crime. Education in the Kurdish language has been banned in Turkey until 2009. In later years people but also children who supported the sue of the Kurdish language were targeted with police investigations.