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[Tim Drayton]

I have just come across the following brief news story, also dated today, that nicely complements the one I quoted at the beginning of this thread. Bizarrely it comes from the "world news" section on the official web site of Antalya municipality in Turkey! (My translation)

http://www.antalyamiz.com/tr-metin_deta ... ersi_.html

Compulsory Greek lessons in the TRNC

The private school named Güvence in the TRNC’s tourist region of Kyrenia has introduced Greek as a compulsory lesson. While the parents who are sending their children to this school have expressed their concerns about this matter, school coordinator Feyzi Derat remains remarkably relaxed. Derat, who says that they have added Greek to the curriculum and it is compulsory for students to study Greek, stating that they were making an investment for the future, defended the policy of making Greek lessons compulsory so that Turkish youth could establish better relations with the people living in the South ‘following the opening of the border points.’ TRNC Ministry of National Education Undersecretary, Erdoğan Soraklı, however, stated that he was unaware of this situation. Soraklı commented that English and German were on the curriculum as foreign languages, but that if deemed necessary other foreign languages may be approved. Soraklı, stating that text books should first be approved by themselves, said that text books may only be used if approved following detailed examination. Soraklı added that they would undertake the necessary investigation into the giving of Greek lessons at the Private Güvence Middle School.

[denizaksulu]

In the ROC, most government clerical jobs require the knowledge of the Turkish language. Students studying Turkish know they have a better chance getting a government job.

Exactly...they are learning Turkish for the advantage it has over any other language when it comes to applying for government jobs....Not from their love to Turkish Cypriots or Turkish language..
No matter how much you hardliners like to deny the fact that Turkish is one of the two official languages of ROC the government acknowledges this fact hence prefers to employ citizens who can speak Turkish as well as Greek...

And then they will tell us that we are less qualified for the jobs so we do not deserve them......Now where did I hear that sort of thing before.......Hmmmmmm! Let me think.

Now I am beginning to see more clearly now. I just realised after Icemans/Kafenes comment, that the GCs are learning Turkish with the sole aim of keeping any TCs out of 'possible' goverment posts. Greeks and gifts...........

Dastardly behaiviour, I'd say

Are you a Cypriot or not??? You have to learn to think like Tpap in order to work anything out in this situation....

I am trying damn it
Its easier to get water out of a pebble stone that getting any sense out of them. Even they themselves dont see what Tpapa wants. Its a b....y charade for all the world to see.

[Tim Drayton]

Sorry, I have realised that the article headlined:
Compulsory Greek lessons in the TRNC
was dated 5 October 2006; I was confused by the way today's date was placed above it on the web page.
Which makes me wonder - was this school finally permitted to teach Greek?

[Get Real!]

Sorry, I have realised that the article headlined:
Compulsory Greek lessons in the TRNC
was dated 5 October 2006; I was confused by the way today's date was placed above it on the web page.
Which makes me wonder - was this school finally permitted to teach Greek?

Yup, they taught everyone the three major words and then closed it down... "Akritas", "Megali idea", and "Embargoed"!

[zan]

Sorry, I have realised that the article headlined:
Compulsory Greek lessons in the TRNC
was dated 5 October 2006; I was confused by the way today's date was placed above it on the web page.
Which makes me wonder - was this school finally permitted to teach Greek?

Yup, they taught everyone the three major words and then closed it down... "Akritas", "Megali idea", and "Embargoed"!

Ethnic cleansing....Rape....Oppression...Are on next years curriculum...

[utu]

Ethnic cleansing....Rape....Oppression...Are on next years curriculum...

I suppose words like 'diplomacy', 'moderation', and 'reconciliation' wouldn't?

[BC Numismatics]

What form of the Turkish language are southern Cypriots being taught? Is it Anatolian Turkish or is it Cypriot Turkish?

I always thought that the official languages of Cyprus are Cypriot Greek,Cypriot Turkish,& English.English is important as a linking language.

Aidan.

[DT.]

EXcellent.

The title reads "One in fifteen GC high school students now studying Turkish"

So far the TC reaction to this thread has been to see through this machiavellian tactic these Greek Cypriot kids have done and call it "an attempt to take away the rightful jobs from the TC's in the ROC."

Please go through this for a second and examine the hellish sewers of paranoia that these forum members have finaly stooped to.

Oh and Zan managed to throw in the words Oppression, rape and murder.

Imagine if the title read "1 in 15 GC toddlers prefer Turkish nursery rhymes to Greek ones." WOuld you also accusse the toddlers of prefering this so that they can some day join the Navy Seals, sneak into a Turkish Generals bedroom, use THE SAME NURSERY RHYME to lull him to sleep and then assassinate him?

The correct response to this post would have been

: Good for them, they don't deny the fact that in this region Turkey is a very big player and whether you want a govt job or a private sector job Turkish will be very beneficial to them. As a side effect it will also bring the communities closer as there now will be a new generation of GC's who can communicate with the TC's in their own language.

But off course, instead we have Zan spitting about "oppression, rape and murder" to people who have are only 30 years away from the last time Turkey committed those exact crimes.

Get a grip.

[BC Numismatics]

Apoel,isn't English a compulsory subject at school over there in Cyprus?

Aidan.

[Viewpoint]

EXcellent.

The title reads "One in fifteen GC high school students now studying Turkish"

So far the TC reaction to this thread has been to see through this machiavellian tactic these Greek Cypriot kids have done and call it "an attempt to take away the rightful jobs from the TC's in the ROC."

Please go through this for a second and examine the hellish sewers of paranoia that these forum members have finaly stooped to.

Oh and Zan managed to throw in the words Oppression, rape and murder.

Imagine if the title read "1 in 15 GC toddlers prefer Turkish nursery rhymes to Greek ones." WOuld you also accusse the toddlers of prefering this so that they can some day join the Navy Seals, sneak into a Turkish Generals bedroom, use THE SAME NURSERY RHYME to lull him to sleep and then assassinate him?

The correct response to this post would have been

: Good for them, they don't deny the fact that in this region Turkey is a very big player and whether you want a govt job or a private sector job Turkish will be very beneficial to them. As a side effect it will also bring the communities closer as there now will be a new generation of GC's who can communicate with the TC's in their own language.

But off course, instead we have Zan spitting about "oppression, rape and murder" to people who have are only 30 years away from the last time Turkey committed those exact crimes.

Get a grip.

The problem is there is no trust.