Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) head office released a statement about the one-week school boycott of Kurdish institutions and people which will start on the first day of the education year on 16 September and is aimed at calling attention to Kurdish people's basic demand to be educated in their mother language.

Remarking that the Kurdish language has been subjected to a systematic assimilation and extinction policy for over a hundred years now, BDP said the AKP government's policy against the Kurdish language could not be considered independently from the Turkish state's prior policies.

BDP underlined that the Turkish state would not satisfy the demand of the Kurdish people by providing them with an elective course for several hours a week.

BDP criticized government officials for voicing empty rhetoric defending that the Kurdish language cannot be recognized as a language of education instead of fulfilling their own responsibilities for the advancement and accomplishment of the democratic resolution process. The party pointed out that this attitude would not help to develop a solution.

The party highlighted that the use of mother tongue was a fundamental right and could not be treated as a matter of debate.

BDP said that "The Kurdish language has survived up to today thanks to the labor of a people resisting against cruelty and pressures for thousands of years now and it will continue to survive and to be improved from now on as well".

The party noted that all BDP organizations, executives, deputies, mayors and members will be supporting the "one week school boycott for mother tongue education" led by TZP-Kurdî and not send their children to schools to voice their demand for education in Kurdish.

BDP ended its statement by calling on all circles to support the boycott to ensure the recognition of the right to mother tongue education.