Kurdish video clips from Turkey in the early 2000s have a fresh and colourful quality like this 'Wele Derewe'. The Turkish Republic has changed long standing laws prohibiting languages other than The New Turkish Language that had been in place outlawing the public use of Laz, Arabic and Kurdish from the 1920s. This was extreme but a policy of promoting New Turkish with Roman Script that had shed the adopted Arabic Script, dropped a lot of Arabic Vocabulary and replaced it with French, archaic Turkic words or invented 'new' Turkish words. A clever and witty short book by Oxford University Press is available on building New Turkish: 'The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success': www.amazon.co.uk The challenge for Turkey was to rebuild and industrialise itself after the fall of The Ottoman Empire. Drastic steps were put in place to try to promote the Yeni Türkçe language of The Turkish Republic. By 2000 a lot of the Reforms were in place so laws could be relaxed...Hence Kurdish and Laz Music Industries became successful at the end of the 1990s. Unfotunately, the Laz language around Trabzon and Rize have largely been lost and replaced by Turkish. Kurdish Communities kept the language and music alive. The Kurdish Music Industry blossomed at the time of 2000 Language Law Reforms. The Kurds had always produced and played 'illegal' Kurdish cassettes but suddenly a new opportunity of Kurdi Arts opened up for Kurdistan from Turkey. VCD was the chosen media at the time as <b>...</b>