Use the passage to answer the question. Children whose mother tongue is not Turkish can not learn their mother tongue in the Turkish public schooling system. Such education can only be made by private education institutions. As concerns Kurdish all such courses were closed down in 2004. —European Commission, Turkey 2006 Progress Report What ongoing issue in the Middle East does this passage illustrate? the rise of radical Islamic fundamentalism the fight against authoritarian governments the failure of pan-Arabism the struggle of ethnic minorities for rights