Turkey+and+the+Caucasus

=Turkey Approves Kurdish Language= 11 September 2009 A university in Turkey has decided to teach the Kurdish language, which was banned in the country until about 1991.This will all start at the Artulku University in the southeastern province of Mardin. They are doing this because one of five people in Turkey are Ethnicly Kurdish. THe head of Turkey's Higher education, Yusuf Ziya Ozcan, said that this would improve language of the minorities. I think this will be good so that the country will be more open to new language and make the country more diverse.

[|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8250361.stm] =Countries In My region= 22 September, 2009 Turkey and the Caucuses consists of are: Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia Turkey's population is around about 70.1 million, with an Growth rate of 1.31%, about 70% of the population is in Urban cities. Azerbaijan's population is about 8 million, its growth rate is about .66%, and nearly 51% of all the inhabitants live in cities. Georgia's population is about 5 million, Russians are about 6.3% of the total population, the countries main language of Georgian is spoken by about 71% of the country. Armenia's population is about 4 million, Armenians make up about 97.9 of the total population, will have a positive growth ratio by 2010 million || million ||
 * Turkey || 70.1 Million ||
 * Azerbaijan || 8 million ||
 * Georgia || 5
 * Armenia || 4