"mountain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Instead, they were referred to as "mountain Turks."
- After years of insisting that Kurds were only "mountain Turks," Ankara explored a different approach under President Turgut Ozal.
- The Ankara Government, for example, refuses to allow the Kurdish language to be used in schools, and refers to Kurds as "mountain Turks."
- Officials have ceased pretending that Kurds are simply "mountain Turks," and it is no longer a criminal offense for Kurds to speak their own language on the street.
- They were not called Kurds but rather "mountain Turks."
- The Government refers to them as "mountain Turks who have forgotten their language."
- Being Muslim no longer counted, and the Kurds - frequently dismissed as "mountain Turks" - found themselves second-class citizens, denied the right to use their languages or express their culture.
- Until the last few years, it was considered dangerous for newspapers even to use the word "Kurd"; instead, they spoke of "mountain Turks."
- Most of it has since become part of Turkey, and the Turks assert that there are no such people as Kurds, just "mountain Turks."
- The region's people are officially known as "mountain Turks."
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