The Father of All Turks never really saw eye to eye with the Kurds. Actually he banned their language, said that Kurds were "Mountain Turks" and imprisoned anyone who disagreed with this view. While he was an enlightened revolutionary for the Turks, he ignored the Kurds. Well, actually, he kind of totally trashed them big time. As a Turkish nationalist and war hero he sought to assimilate the Kurds into Turkish society whether they liked it or not. And they didn't. Turkish was made the only language permitted to be taught in schools and the process of forced assimilation began. For the 10-15 million Turkish Kurds a life of cultural and political denial had just begun.
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