NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) MESOP : RECEP TAYYP THE BOOKDEALER
Last week, at campaign rallies in the mainly Kurdish towns of Batman and Siirt, Erdogan brandished a copy of a Kurdish-language Quran, published by the government’s Religious Affairs Directorate. The translation had taken five years.
As commentators noted, it was left to the president to unveil Turkey’s first “official” edition of the Quran in Kurdish. As he did so, Erdogan warned the crowds that the pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party, the ruling party’s biggest election threat in the southeast of the country, had “nothing to do with religion.” Read more: http://www.voanews.com/content/in-turkey-erdogan-election-rhetoric-draws-ire/2775833.html