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Veil lifts off once-forbidden Kurdish folklore music
The fall of Saddam Hussein's regime has allowed the once-forbidden Kurdish music to spread throughout the country. Even such unlikely fans as Arab taxi drivers and Turkmen teenagers are singing along with the renaissance of a culture that spent nearly three decades in obscurity.
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| More on minorities |
| Kurds struggle to find voice in Turkey |
| As death threats and angry slogans greet a recent performance in Kurdish by one of Turkeys most popular singers, many human rights advocates in Turkey feel Ankara still has a long way to go to meet European Union standards on minorities |
| 28 December 2003 |
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| Norway: Rap duo threatened with violence |
| The rap duo Prayaz from the Norwegian capital Oslo sing about violence against women, and they are themselves threatened with violence because of that, reported NRK |
| 14 November 2011 |
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| Nepal: Police disrupts Tibetan culture show |
| Tibetans in Nepal are facing increased restrictions on cultural performances. Recently a programme by a Kathmandu-based group was broken up by the Nepalese police |
| 24 October 2011 |
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