{"id":1749,"date":"2020-06-13T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2020-06-13T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T12:09:14","slug":"the-kurdish-cultural-activist-told-the-ikhrw-that-turkey-treats-the-kurds-violently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ikhrw.com\/en\/interview\/the-kurdish-cultural-activist-told-the-ikhrw-that-turkey-treats-the-kurds-violently\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kurdish cultural activist told the IKHRW that Turkey treats the Kurds violently"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Given the Kurdish cultural atmosphere in Iran, which is also encouraged by governmental and non-governmental organizations, many Kurdish cultural activists in Iran separate the line between cultural activity and political activity with cultural coverage, and the politicized activities are harmful for the society as a whole and the Kurdish community in particular. Kurdish cultural activists, meanwhile, are almost in agreement on Turkey’s systematic violence against Kurdish culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Diar Ali Nia, a Kurdish cultural activist,\ntold the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW) that “three\nfactors” were the reasons for the current and unhealthy situation of\nKurdish culture in Turkey. He considers the “illiteracy” of the\nKurdish community as an important factor and says that “the illiteracy of\nthe Kurdish community in Turkey at the general level and the lack of knowledge\nabout its history and background” play an important role in creating the\ncurrent situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Kurdish cultural activist believes that\nthe Turks do “an unlimited size of propaganda” and that this is\neffective in shaping the current situation. According to Diar Alinia, all of\nthese factors go go together and lead to the “violence of the Turks\nagainst the Kurdish community” and the current deplorable cultural\nsituation in Turkish society, which is encouraged and publicly supported by the\nTurkish government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Given the Kurdish cultural atmosphere in Iran, which is also encouraged by governmental and non-governmental organizations, many Kurdish cultural activists in Iran separate the line between cultural activity and political activity with cultural coverage, and the politicized activities are harmful for the society as a whole and the Kurdish community in particular. Kurdish cultural activists, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[360,48,359],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","tag-kurdish-culture","tag-turkey","tag-violence"],"yoast_head":"\n
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