Police assist local Kurdish community with Turkish-language newspaper

A police station in a city north of Tokyo is helping to integrate the local Kurdish community by publishing free newspapers in Turkish to provide easily accessible information that can keep residents safe and informed.Since the 1990s, the city of Kawaguchi in Saitama Prefecture has seen its Kurdish population grow to the point that it is the largest in Japan.From that time, Kurds began fleeing to Japan from Turkey due to crackdowns by the government, according to a supporters group.A total of about 1,500 Kurds live in the industrial city, where a number of foreign residents have been workin…READ FULL ARTICLE