POLI 1403 Study Guide - Final Guide: Swiss Civil Code, Kurdish Languages, Islamic Calendar
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473-499: which two political parties won seats in turkey"s parliament in the. Which two political parties won the most seats in. The justice and development party (akp) with 34. 3% of the votes and the republican people"s party (chp) with 19. 4% in 2002. They replaced the islamic calendar with the european one, changed the alphabet from arabiv to latin script, and made sunday instead of fridady the weekly day of rest. They discouraged veiling and prohibited men from wearing the fez. What impact did this have on the kurds living in. Kurds were denied the existence of kurds as an ethnic group, turkey forbade the kurdish language, and insisted that every citizen be considered a turk. Only turkishness was the acceptable ethnic category which meant that they weren"t recognized as a minority and the use of kurdish language, dress, and names was outlawed: provide examples of when turkey"s military has intervened in electoral-party politics.