Kurdish language center faces endless obstacles
- KurdishMedia.com - By Welat Lezgin
- 25/11/2003 00:00:00
London (KurdishMedia.com) 25 November 2003: The Kurdish-language teaching center opened in Batman in north Kurdistan, which recently did not receive an operating licence by the Turkish authorities because the doors in the building were "too narrow", is facing a new obstacle.
While the owner of the Kurdish-language teaching center, Aydin Unesi, was waiting for his operating license to start the center in Batman because he had implemented the government’s requirements, increasing the size of all the doors in the building from 85 centimetres to 90 as required by the authorities, instead he received a letter from the director of the Private Education Institutions arguing that the building did not have "stable fire stairs."
The Turkish daily Hurriyet quoted Unesi saying that the building did have fire stairs but that they had not been included in the inventory list:
"We are not complaining, we deal positively with this issue. We hope that other institutions will also be blessed with these norms and standards. We will become a European institution. We are aware of our differences from the other institutions. However, we have still not understood why despite the fact that we have fire stairs like minarets, they say that we do not have any," Unesi said.
Despite carrying out reforms in order to meet the EU requirements, Turkey has been accused by the EU and human rights organisations that it is failing to implement these reforms.
- KurdishMedia.com - By Welat Lezgin
- 25/11/2003 00:00:00