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Ministry of Interior, launched an investigation into Sur Municipality due to putting Turkish and Kurdish (in both Kurmanc and Zaza/Dimili dialects) wall posters up around district in recognition of Human Rights Week.
Previously a lot of investigations launched against Sur Municipality due to her multilingual services and activities. Now as the continuation of these investigations, Ministry of Interior launched another investigation into Sur Municipality due to putting up multilingual wall posters which were prepared for the Human Rights Week activities. There was writing Human is human with his/her rights on them in Turkish and Kurdish ( "Mirov bi mafên xwe mirove", "Merdim bi mafêxo merdimo"). Sur Municipality put posters up in various places of district on 10 December 2006.
One of the latest and most serious of these investigations was about the Sur Municipal Assemblys decision toward providing municipal services in local and international languages (Kurdish, Arabic, Syriac, Armenian and English) on 06 October 2006. Although most of the previous cases and investigations
ended with dismissal of proceedings (nolle prosequi) or acquisition of municipality from all charges, upon the news about decision in press on 5 January 2007, The Ministry of Interior launched an investigation into Municipality. Later, The Ministry of Interior, upon the ministrys inspector generals report regarding the decision as an act violating the
Constitution, appealed to the State Council to dismiss the mayor and dissolve the Sur Municipal Assembly. The case is still before the State Council and the courts decision is expected in the near future.