FIELD STUDY REPORT

The first part of the report provides a general overview of the discrimination faced by Kurdish elements in Turkey and the position of Zazaki in recent years. [...] PART ONE Overview As is known, Article 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of Turkey reads as follows: “The Republic of Turkey is a democratic, secular and social state governed by the rule of law; bearing in mind the concepts of public peace, national solidarity and justice; respecting human rights; loyal to the nationalism of Atatürk, and based on the fundamental tenets set forth in the Preamb. [...] Kurds are one of the ethnic elements subjected to the violence perpetrated by the centralized unitary state in the fields of education, culture and administration. [...] One of the most important demands of the Kurdish ethnicity struggling against the centuries-old apartheid regime is the right to education in their mother tongue. [...] Under the influence of the dominant language in the city, children begin to speak the dominant language.