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[paliometoxo]

The Greek Cypriot court looking into the case filed by the Cyprus Turkish Teachers’ Union KTOS against the Greek Cypriot Council of Ministers and Ministry of Education was finalized today.
The high administrative court rejected the KTOS case on the grounds that the case did not directly influence the interests of the plaintiff.

The Union had filed the case against the Greek Cypriot Administration to push forward for the right of Turkish Cypriot children living in Limassol to receive their education in their own native language.

Greek Cypriots Children's are having a education in their own native language in Northern Cyprus freely . books and their teachers are coming from Southern part of the Cyprus .

KTOS is going to take the case European human rights court.

what a bout the rest of the foreign children from china? lebanon and other parts of the globe should the schools have these languages also??

do they do the same for greekCy's in north?

I do agree with u the children should be able to have the option maybe open a few schools just for the turkish cypriots living in the south who whish to learn turkish and not greek..

if there is re-unification will they im sure have both turkish and greek schools atm i dont see them doing this not while there is division ..

[iceman]

As discussed before THERE ARE NO TURKISH CYPRIOTS IN LIMASSOL!!
The Turkish speaking community in Limassol are Gypsies who moved to north with TC's in 1974.
In mid eighties these people refused to be treated as TC's by the authorities,so with the aid of UN they moved back to Limassol and claimed TC houses abandoned by TC's in 1974.

[shahmaran]

But they want to learn Turkish?

[umit07]

The point is that the RoC is using it's identity to represent the whole island and TC's and GC's at the same time as just "Cypriots". Under the RoC contstitution they are obliged to offer the service!

[iceman]

But they want to learn Turkish?

do they really?? i doubt it...they are probably after some other benefit from ROC..

[CopperLine]

In any multi-language society language policy is always a difficult issue, made still more difficult when combined with education policy. Since language is one of the main conveyors of who we are and how we think etc, then loss of languages to the next generations is a crucial and often irretrievable loss. Who should pay for education in whichever language ? Insofar as language is a public good, and the benefits do not just accrue to those who speak the language but extend beyond that particular language community, then it should be paid from the public purse.

I'm all in favour of Greek being taught and used in the north, and of Turkish in the south, and all paid from taxation. A far better way of building confidence and mutual respect is to cut military spending and invest in language education.

[Sotos]

The point is that you occupy 1/3rd of our country illegally and you violate the 1960 agreements. If you want to implement the 1960 agreements then you have to agree to implement them fully! Do you? And ECHR has nothing to do with this. This is not about human rights. It is about the 1960 agreements that you refuse! If it was about human rights then we should also have public schools teaching in Russian, English, Polish, Romanian, Arabic etc because there are more of those people in the free areas of Cyprus than the TCs!

[cypezokyli]

as far as i know, they do learn turkish..... sth the original post "forgot" to mention.

[shahmaran]

The point is that you occupy 1/3rd of our country illegally and you violate the 1960 agreements. If you want to implement the 1960 agreements then you have to agree to implement them fully! Do you? And ECHR has nothing to do with this. This is not about human rights. It is about the 1960 agreements that you refuse! If it was about human rights then we should also have public schools teaching in Russian, English, Polish, Romanian, Arabic etc because there are more of those people in the free areas of Cyprus than the TCs!

Except this country doesn't belong to the Russians, it belongs to youandus which you seem to forget all the time, and proceed to talk even more crap built up on it

The official languages are Turkish, Greek and English.

[iceman]

The point is that you occupy 1/3rd of our country illegally and you violate the 1960 agreements. If you want to implement the 1960 agreements then you have to agree to implement them fully! Do you? And ECHR has nothing to do with this. This is not about human rights. It is about the 1960 agreements that you refuse! If it was about human rights then we should also have public schools teaching in Russian, English, Polish, Romanian, Arabic etc because there are more of those people in the free areas of Cyprus than the TCs!

Except this country doesn't belong to the Russians, it belongs to youandus which you seem to forget all the time, and proceed to talk even more crap built up on it

The official languages are Turkish, Greek and English.

English is NOT an official language of ROC..