Teachers: Kurdish people managed to preserve their existence thanks to their language

 February 21 of each year marks International Mother Language Day, according to UNESCO, which officially approved this in 1999.

 The Kurdish people in the Kurdish parts are subjected to processes of assimilation, physical and cultural extermination, and deprivation of the most basic rights. It is forbidden to learn the Kurdish language in Eastern Kurdistan, and the death sentence is issued to anyone who participates in Kurdish language activities while speaking the Kurdish language in Turkey is considered a crime, as the government has put the  thousands in the prisons over the past years on charges of listening to Kurdish songs or speaking the Kurdish language.

 In addition, the Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries are practicing genocide against the Kurdish presence in the areas it occupies in Rojava "Afrin, Girê Spî and Serêkaniyê", and the Kurdish language is forbidden in them.

 About this, our agency, Nashtman Haji Murad, and Darwish Alo met, the two teachers at the Martyr Vian Amara Academy, who talked about the importance of the mother language in conjunction with its international day.

 "The Kurdish people managed to preserve their existence thanks to the Kurdish language"

 Nashtman says that "the mother language is the identity of the community, and that many peoples have been subjected during the last century to cultural genocide. If we talk about these peoples, they still exist among the societies, but lost their identity, for example, the "laz" lost their existence as a people when they lost their language".

 She added, "In Kurdistan, too, the Kurds were subjected to attempts to obliterate identity through attacks that targeted the Kurdish language and culture, as well as physical extermination, but the people's preservation of the mother tongue,  led to the failure of these attempts. In short, it can be said that the Kurdish people were able to preserve their existence thanks to  his language."

 "The bloody reality against the Kurds in Northern Kurdistan has had a great impact"

Murad talks about the reality of the Kurdish language in Rojava and Bakur (Northern Kurdistan), saying, "In Rojava, as much as the revolution was against oppression and tyranny, as much as it was to revive the mother tongue. They are historical steps in this framework,  It will affect other parts with the consolidation of the importance of the mother tongue in Rojava in the coming years.”

 "The bloody reality against the Kurdish people in Bakur (Northern Kurdistan) has greatly affected the mother tongue. What Turkey is practicing is the genocide of the Kurdish language, and that means the extermination of the Kurdish people, so we note the extent of the impact of the repressive practices there. The step taken by the Turkish government regarding making the language  Kurdish voluntary is a soft policy, for the state to put the Kurdish language under its control, but the Kurdish language must be one of the main languages ​​in Turkey as a whole.

 "Turkish attacks and siege obstructed the efforts of the Kurdish Language Foundation"

 For his part, the teacher at the Martyr Vian Amara Academy, Darwish Alo, says: "Since the Second World War, the policy of assimilation of the Kurds among the neighboring peoples within the countries that occupy Kurdistan continues to this day, such as the Turkification policy by the Turkish state and the Arabization policy by the Baath regime in Iraq.  Syria, but the Kurdish people realized the dangers of these practices.”

 Alo points out that "with the start of the revolution in Rojava, the Kurdish Language Foundation worked to consolidate the concept that the mother language means existence, and on this basis it began activities and activities to revive the Kurdish language by opening schools and institutions and teaching the language and history of the Kurdish people."

 On the extent to which the Kurdish Language Foundation played its role in reviving and consolidating the mother tongue in Rojava, Darwish Alo said, "In light of the Rojava revolution and during the past years, the steps taken by the Kurdish Language Foundation were not sufficient to consolidate the mother tongue among society, due to the low levels of society  Within the framework of the concept of language, as a result of the marginalization of the region by the Baath Party in Syria, in addition to the siege measures that Rojava has been subjected to for nearly 10 years, the conditions of war and the attacks of the Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries, all of which have a significant impact on hendering the efforts of the Kurdish Language Foundation.

 He added: "The Kurdish mother tongue is targeted a lot in Afrin and Serêkaniyê occupied by the Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries, and there are parties targeting the Kurdish language as unrecognized, and there are those among our people who cheer for that, but we always stress that our language means  our existence."

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