Kurdish Authorities Outlaw the Assyrian Language in North Iaq

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Assyrian International News Agency
Kurdish Authorities Outlaw the Assyrian Language in North Iaq

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Posted GMT 3-10-2007 20:44:43

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Dohuk, North Iraq (AINA) -- Kurdish authorities are preventing Assyrian
businesses from using Assyrian names or putting up signs using the
Assyrian language on the front of their stores, according to the Assyrian
website assyrian4all.net.

Kurdish authorities have informed businesses that they may use Kurdish or
English only. An Assyrian businessman observed that this policy is no
different from that under Saddam's regime, when Assyrians were forced to
use Arabic instead of Assyrian names.

http://www.aina.org/news/20070310144443.htm

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