The annual report titled “Systematic Violations Against the Kurdish Language and Culture in Turkey – 2025”, prepared by Kurdish Monitoring with the contributions of Mojust Foundation, has been released to the public. The report shows that throughout 2025, violations targeting the public use of the Kurdish language in Turkey have gone beyond isolated incidents and have taken on a systematic and persistent character across areas including education, the judiciary, media, culture and the arts, and prisons.
The report documents more than 70 concrete violations in the fields of public space, media, culture and the arts, and prisons. The censorship of Kurdish as an “unknown language” or “…” in parliamentary records, restrictions on the use of the mother tongue in prisons, access bans on Kurdish-language media, and the arbitrary prohibition of cultural activities stand out among the report’s key findings.
You can access the full report here:
Systematic Violations Against the Kurdish Language and Culture in Turkey – 2025