ANKARA, Turkey -- President Abdullah Gul emphasised during a visit to Diyarbakir on Thursday (December 30th) that Turkey must accept linguistic and religious differences among its citizens, but must, at the same time, remain a united country. "[Although] the official language of Turkey is Turkish," Gul said "we have citizens using different languages," including Kurdish and Arabic. "All these are ours; [they are] our languages," he added.
ANKARA, Turska -- Predsednik Abdulah Gul istakao je tokom posete Dijarbakiru u četvrtak (30. decembar) da Turska mora da prihvati jezičke i verske razlike između svojih građana, ali i da istovremeno mora da ostane ujedinjena zemlja. „[Mada] je zvanični jezik u Turkoj turski“, rekao je Gul, „imamo građane koji koriste druge jezike“, uključujući kurdski i arapski. „Svi su oni naši; [to su] naši jezici“, dodao je on.