Turkey allows use of Kurdish language in court
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The right to give testimony in their mother tongue was one of the key demands raised by hundreds of prison inmates who went on a 68-day hunger strike that ended in November.
The new law also overturned a ban on conjugal visits for Kurdish inmates.
Turkey's Islamic-rooted government has boosted cultural and language rights for the country's Kurds since taking power in 2002.
But it has failed to find a long-sought settlement to a three-decade-old Kurdish insurgency in the southeast.