We have all known that the discrimination against Kurds have always been high in Turkey. This year alone there has been more than hundreds of human rights abuses against Kurds from the turkish state - many of these human rights abuses were cases run at the European Court of Human Rights which has judged Turkey numerous times over the last couple of years. However, it is not only Kurds who are discriminated. The discrimination stretches as far as to other minority groups including Armenians, Romas, Alevis, Christians etc. Also the USA human rights report asserts that Turkey is still imprisoning journalists more than ever. So we can conclude that even Turkey's best ally, the Americans, are now open about the discrimination and human rights abuses against minority groups and especially Kurds.
Couple of quotes from the report:
Read it all here:
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/220551.pdf
There is a lot more. I am not going to fill this page out with all the discrimination and human rights abuses faced by minority groups. It is not all bad though. There has been better conditions for many minority groups including broader broadcasting in other languages than Turkish and the opening of more Cemevis ( Alevi houses) etc. However, it is obvious that there is a need for law changes or else the human rights abuses will continue.