Athlete criticized for his Zazaki on TRT: A individuals’s tragedy…

WALL – Yerevan Barut, a 21-year-old athlete from Dersim, who received the World College Boxing Championship, participated in this system referred to as Stars of Sports activities (Stêrkên Sporê) on TRT Kurdi.

The video of Barut, who tried to specific himself within the Zaza (Kırmanchki-Zazaki) dialect of Kurdish in this system, turned the agenda on social media.

Barut’s speech, during which he usually makes use of Turkish phrases, was met with response from some social media customers. Thereupon, the younger athlete Barut made an announcement on his Twitter account. Describing what occurred as a ‘lynching’, Barut wrote:

“Whats up. As everybody is aware of, I used to be requested to talk Zazaki (Kırmançki) in my mom tongue as a result of format of this system I attended at TRT Kurdi. I said that I couldn’t grasp the mom tongue and tried to specific myself as my language turned. Then I noticed that I used to be being lynched on social media.

Please don’t deprive the youngsters of Dersim of our mom tongue. All languages ​​return to the prehistoric instances and are available to the current day. Let’s save this ore bequeathed to us from extinction…

I feel it is a individuals’s tragedy. And my subsequent job will certainly be studying my language.

I’m simply one of many final generations of a mountain metropolis. The variety of younger people who find themselves international to our language like me, or worse than me, is a lot that I am unable to inform.”

‘THIS IS OUR PROBLEM’

Then, younger athlete Barut tagged TRT Kurdi’s account and stated, “I’m an athlete from Dersim. Simply because Yerevan represents Dersim on the planet doesn’t imply that it’s going to not do its half. Since I’ve revealed a facet of us that’s about to grow to be crippled, I need to encourage us to suppose and suppose that this can be a drawback for all of us, of a society.”

WHO IS EREVAN BARUT?

Yerevan Barut, who lives together with his mom in Batman village within the heart of Dersim, began sports activities because of the coach Gürsel Tayam, whom he met in 2016 after a combat he obtained concerned in. Barut, who later began to take part in tournaments, obtained levels in boxing, kickboxing and muaythai branches.

He received European and Turkish championships within the tournaments he participated in gunpowder, muaythai and kick boxing.

Yerevan Barut, who can also be a 4th yr pupil of Erzincan Binali Yıldırım College (EBYÜ) Bodily Training and Sports activities Instructing, turned the European champion by successful the gold medal on the European Senior Boxing Championship held in Croatia on 12-24 March 2022. (NEWS CENTER)