“These decisions were made not to interfere with lifestyles, but to protect the lifestyles and safety of our citizens,” news website Duvar cited Soylu as saying on Thursday.The inquiry came from main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu, who is himself Kurdish.In May this year, an Aynur Doğan concert in the northwestern Turkish province of Kocaeli was cancelled by the local municipality and labelled by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), as “inappropriate”.Kurdish soprano Pervin Chakar was also barred from performing in a university hall in the Kurdish-majority Mardin (Mêrdîn) province, run by an AKP proxy who replaced the elected mayor.Human rights lawyer Tanrıkulu said in a tweet on Thursday that Soylu’s response, “documents how Kurdish has been banned under the AKP government ‘on the grounds of lifestyle’.”"