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	Angola: Information on whether the following languages Lingala and Bakongo/Kicongo are spoken in Angola	11 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Query Responses
	Turkey: 1. Please provide background on the history and characteristics of the Kurdish people in Gaziantep. 2. Please provide information on the treatment of Kurds in Turkey generally, and in Kurdish Hill a suburb of Gaziantep. Are they at risk of being harassed or ill-treated because they are characterised as being terrorists? 3. Please provide information on the major political parties in Turkey and in particular whether there are "pro-Kurdish parties". 4. Are Kurdish people prevented from speaking their native language? 5. Please provide information on the HADEP and whether a member of the Youth Branch of that party is likely to be targeted for harm. 6. Please provide information on Newroz Celebrations and is there information that anyone was beaten by police at the 2000 Newroz Celebrations? 7. Please confirm whether the HADEP was banned by the Turkish Court of Constitution and DEHAP became the new party for Kurds? 8. Is there any information to suggest that a Kurd in Turkey might be terminated from employment because of their political activities? 9. Is there information to suggest the police had members of the DTP under surveillance during the general election of July 2007? 10. Is there any information that the police raid the houses of members of the DTP and that the police take such members to the anti-terror unit of police headquarters? Is there any evidence that the police torture people when they interrogate them? 11. Is there any information indicating that towards the end of January 2010, police arrested many Kurds in Gaziantep and that they were tortured and threatened with killing if they did not cease their political activities? 12. Is there information that the police try to target political activists using "fascist" groups	4 March 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	India: Regions where Bengali is spoken, including Kolkata	20 January 2011
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses
	Ghana: 1. Are people of the Akims ethnic group in Ghana likely to speak Twi and/or Hausa? 2. Are these languages likely to have different accents according to where a person originates from or has been living? 3. Do any ethnic groups in South Africa speak Twi and/or Hausa? 4. Are police in Ghana likely to assist a homosexual who has been the subject of an assault? Would they investigate the death of a homosexual who died due to injuries received during an assault?	6 October 2010
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Somalia: Whether Mogadishu is an ethnically mixed city and whether Medina in Mogadishu is a predominantly Reer Hamar area	9 July 2010
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Query Responses
	Sierra Leone: Information on whether English is commonly spoken in Makani, Sierra Leone	18 March 2010
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Query Responses
	Somalia: Information on the reliability of Language Analysis Reports especially as pertains to the Bajuni Islanders	14 January 2010
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Query Responses
	Bhutan: Treatment by authorities of ethnic Nepalis in Bhutan	14 August 2009
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Ireland: Refugee Documentation Centre \| Document type: Query Responses
	India: 1. Please provide brief background information on the changing of the Punjab/Haryana borders and any conflict between Punjabi speaking Sikhs and Hindi speaking people in the area. 2. Are Sikhs discriminated against, as claimed, in the area? 3. Please provide brief background information on the Sant Bhindrawala group. Who are they and what is their aim? 4. What are Gurudwaras?	9 October 2007
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Australia: Refugee Review Tribunal \| Document type: Query Responses
	Somalia: Information on whether Kibajuni is commonly referred to as Bajuni; whether a Bajuni who speaks Kibajuni is considered to be speaking Kibajuni or Swahili; whether someone who speaks Kibajuni understand Swahili and vice-versa; whether an interpreter, translator or linguist would refer to Kibajuni as Swahili; information on the differences and similarities between Kibajuni and Swahili and where the two languages are spoken in the world (November 2005)	14 November 2005
Category: Country Information \| Publisher: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada \| Document type: Query Responses

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