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In this documentary, experts and prominent Turkmen figures highlight the current status of the Turkmen language in the Kurdistan Region and compare it to the past, when successive Iraqi governments deprived the ethnic group of mother tongue education and oppressed them.
Turkmens enjoy unique cultural and political rights in the Kurdistan Region, unlike in the rest of Iraq.
However, the lack of a standardized Turkmen language has compelled them to rely on Turkish in schools.
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