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Moving Toward Equity: Bringing Bilingual Education to Turkey’s Kurdish Children

Authors

  • Elizabeth Story Ohio University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/18258

Keywords

Kurdish language, bilingual school, education, Turkey

Abstract

This article examines the history of Kurdish language repression in Turkey and argues that bilingual education for Kurdish children will ultimately benefit both Turks and Kurds. Research shows that bilingual education tends to create empathy between the children of conflicting groups. This is particularly intriguing in the situation of Hebrew-Arabic bilingual schools in Israel, since the situation of Arab Israelis is in many ways comparable to that of Turkish Kurds.

Full text: http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/czasopismo/589/?idno=14760

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The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies

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2018-10-20

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STORY, Elizabeth. Moving Toward Equity: Bringing Bilingual Education to Turkey’s Kurdish Children. The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies. Online. 20 October 2018. No. 2 (5). [Accessed 7 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/18258.
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