Belgium’s state secretary for socioeconomic affairs Zuhal Demir, a Kurd with roots in Turkey, announced she was going to renounce her Turkish citizenship, "Kurdistan24" reports.
"A country that had no love for that other identity I was given at birth, for which there is no passport," Demir said of Turkey, reminding of the Turkish state’s assimilationist policies against the Kurds and her people’s statelessness.