
HDK: Single language imposition made peoples enemies to each other

2019-02-21 13:00:07


	İSTANBUL- The HDK Committee on Peoples and Beliefs invited everyone to speak &nbsp;their mother tongue on February 21st World Mother Language Day. HDK stating that the language is the most important bridge connecting the past and the future, said: "Single language imposition made the communities drift away from each other, even made them enemies to each other."

	Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) The Peoples and Beliefs Commission made a written statement on World Mother Tongue Day, which was announced in 1999 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

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	In the statement where mother tongue is defined as the language used in all sorts of communications &nbsp;at the level of a nation , " As a wider definition, the language a person learns without any official training from their family and community is their mother tongue. To prohibit that language, is a violation of human rights" was said.&nbsp;

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