Does it matter that EU and foreign governments push Turkey to bring freedom to Kurds?
I don’t think I know really but I think not only the Kurds but all citizens; Turks, Greeks, Armenians and everyone else living in Turkey should force Turkish state to be democratic as more as possible and I don’t think it helps the situation when the US Government says turkey is already a democracy. I don’t believe this helps Turkey to deal with the issues to be dealt with. I believe before everything Kurds themselves must throw out the internalized negativities that I see on them particularly. For example, they should refuse to speak Turkish at home. If Kurdish parents say “from now on we are speaking Kurdish at home and I do not want to hear one word in Turkish” then they can pass their language to future generations. If they do that, it will have some sort of political result as well. But I think the people feel very powerless and they just don’t think that this is anything they can achieve. QUESTION: You seem to have honed in on Kurdish. You spent 18 years working on your dictionar
