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Kurdish language forbidden in Kirkuk hospitals
The Kurdish newspaper Aso reported on Sunday that the Kurdish language is still not allowed to be used in Kirkuk's hospitals. The newspaper reported that in a meeting in Kirkuk Childrens Hospital, Dr. Shahen requested that Kurdish writings in the hospital should be removed and only Arabic should be used as it is the language of the holy Islamic book Qur'an. The same newspaper reported a few weeks ago in issue number 69 that the Iraqi Islamic Party, the large Sunni party which boycotted the January elections in Iraq, condemned the use of Kurdish with the Latin alphabet in its newspaper 'Dar-Al-Salam' and regarded it as a threat to the Arabic language.Posted by: phil_b 2005-04-20 |
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