Turkey allows Kurdish conference
Kurdish is being used in a literary conference which opened on Tuesday in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir.
The week-long event is being attended by Kurdish writers and intellectuals from Turkey itself and abroad.
It follows a series of fundamental reforms linked to Turkey’s long-term bid to join the European Union, including measures to promote Kurdish.
Local officials admit such a conference would have been unthinkable a decade ago, when Ankara was in the midst of a bloody 15-year conflict with a separatist Kurdish group, the PKK.