Botan Times EnglishThe traffic signs and warnings in Kurdish were removed in some cities

The traffic signs and warnings in Kurdish were removed in some cities in the Southeast of Türkiye.

It is not known who removed these signs.

There are some allegations that these people who removed traffic signs and warnings in Kurdish were done under police control.

Diyarbakir is one of those cities.

According to Mesopatamia Agent’s video news, removing of the Kurdish writings was done under police control. Someone took the video while the traffic signs and warnings in Kurdish were being removed, and the video shows a man with a gun and a white Ranger car in that place.

We can see that in the video the person who recorded it responds to them and says, “Why are you removing these signs?” After that they got into their car and drove away.

Dargeçit is one of the cities from which the Kurdish writing has been removed.

According to the news of Mesopotamia Agent, the writings “Pêşî Peya“, which is written on the road by the municipality, is removed by the police and the teams of the Commissioner of Highways.

The “Pêşî Peya” traffic sign was removed in Batman and Mardin.

Someone removed the Kurdish traffic sign in Van and put a racist writings in its place.

According to news from Rudaw, the knowledge and photos shared on social media, the Kurdish writing “Pêşî Peya” on 2 Nisan Street in Van was removed last night by unknown person(s) and in its place a racist writings in red was written “Türkiye is Turkish and will remain Turkish“.

The deputy of the DEM Party of Batman, Zeynep Oduncu, reacted to the removal of the writings of the Kurdish traffic sign and wrote “Pêşî kurdî pêşî ziman” (Firstly Kurdish, Firstly Language) on the wall of the governorship.

The writings that were removed in Batman are written again by the Batman Municipality.

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This news was translated by Betül Demir