ANKARA, — Bengi Yildiz the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputy parliamentary group spoke Kurdish during his party’s group meeting at the Turkish parliament.
In his speech Yildiz criticized the treatment of Kurdish as an unknown language by the Diyarbakır 6th High Criminal Court in the ongoing trial of 152 prominent Kurdish politicians.
The judges turned off the microphones of the defendants who spoke Kurdish and said “the defendant spoke in an unknown language” for the record.
Yildiz said that all BDP MP’s will speak Kurdish everywhere necessary until it’s understood that the language they speak is Kurdish.