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[Maximus]

23 October 2013

The Greek Ministry of Education has rejected a political party's demand that ethnic Turks in Western Thrace be provided kindergarten education in both Greek and Turkish.
The ministry claims that meeting the demand from the Friendship, Equality and Peace Party, established to represent the interests of the region's Turkish minority, would violate the right to equal education.

Under a law passed in 2006 kindergarten education was made obligatory for all children under five, regardless of their ethnicity or religion.

In February, Greek authorities temporarily shut down 12 Muslim minority schools in Western Thrace as part of austerity measures taken at educational facilities, pointing to low enrollment.

Among the 12 schools whose activities were suspended by the Greek Ministry of Education, seven are in Xanthi, four in Rhodope and one in Evros.

Where is the source for this?

todayszaman & NTV

Todayszaman

[Paphitis]

Skidmark, all your sources are from the 90s and pretty much irrelevant.

Today, there are Turkic Muslims Officers in the Greek military who will fight Turkey to the end! I seem to recall a rather attractive young Greek female which was serving Greece with pride.

[miltiades]

Are you insinuating that the Turks are caring and responsible when it comes to their own very large minorities such as the 20 million Kurds!! Or perhaps you consider the treatment of the dispossessed Cypriots as fair play.

You have obviously worn your blinkers and are totally oblivious of Turkey's human right record,

The treatment of any minority in any nation should be on an equal par as the treatment of the majority, alas, human nature being such it does not always manifest it self.

I'm extremely happy that having lived in the UK for more than 50 years , I find my self very much a part of the majority, as indeed most Cypriots are. We have blended in, adapted and integrated with the vast majority whilst still maintaining our unique ETHNICITY as CYPRIOTS.

[stpier]

Skidmark, all your sources are from the 90s and pretty much irrelevant.

23 October 2013

[miltiades]

I wonder if such medieval barbaric acts take place in Greece.

NY Times, 13 Jul 2003, 'Honor Killings' Defy Turkish Efforts to End Them

YAYLIM, Turkey — Last month a woman named Cemse Allak was buried in a corner of a municipal cemetery here. Ms. Allak, unmarried and pregnant, had died from a stoning.

Villagers and local lawyers said Ms. Allak -- as well as the man who had made her pregnant -- had been killed to restore the honor of their families.

For seven months after her stoning, Ms. Allak lay semi-conscious, her skull crushed, unable to move or speak. Still, according to the people who watched over her, Ms. Allak was capable of expressing a wide range of emotions with her eyes.

Relatives visited once, in the beginning, to tell the hospital staff that they could not pay for her care. The fetus inside Ms. Allak died six weeks after the attack.

When Ms. Allak died on June 7, no one from her family claimed her body, and none of her relatives attended the funeral.

...

The death of Ms. Allak, 35, underscores the distance between legislative pronouncements emanating from Ankara, Turkey's modern capital, and the sometimes grim, medieval realities of everyday life in other parts of the country.

...

The stoning of Mr. Acil and Ms. Allak appeared to follow in the tradition of recm, which is, according to villagers here, the religiously sanctioned trial and stoning of a dishonored woman or man by an entire village. "

Indeed, Turkey is a nation to be ...proud off!!!

[stpier]

The minority of Thrace, addressed a request letter to the Greek Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, for the creation of bilingual minority kindergartens.

The announcement published in the Turkish media was, “The Friendship Equality and Peace Party (FEP) sent a letter to the Education Minister, Mr Arvanitopoulos, asking the creation of Minority Kindergartens that are to provide education both in Turkish and Greek.”

In its letter, the FEP Party highlighted that minority education is a guaranteed right of the minority and must be applied at all stages of compulsory education.

It has been noted that the demand for bilingual minority kindergartens is a democratic requirement of the minority, and that kindergarten is actually the preparation period for primary education, so in order to better prepare children for elementary school, bilingual kindergartens are a necessity.

The FEP Party’s letter on kindergartens, has also been sent to East Macedonia and Thrace Governor Aris Giannakidis and to MP’s of Xanthi, Rodopi and Evros prefectures.

[kurupetos]

The minority of Thrace, addressed a request letter to the Greek Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, for the creation of bilingual minority kindergartens.

What minority?

[stpier]

The minority of Thrace, addressed a request letter to the Greek Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, for the creation of bilingual minority kindergartens.

What minority?

Ask it to the Greek source of the news: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/09 ... education/

[kurupetos]

The minority of Thrace, addressed a request letter to the Greek Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, for the creation of bilingual minority kindergartens.

What minority?

Ask it to the Greek source of the news: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/09 ... education/

Why do you care then? It's a muslim minority, not a Turkish minority.

[stpier]

The minority of Thrace, addressed a request letter to the Greek Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, for the creation of bilingual minority kindergartens.

What minority?

Ask it to the Greek source of the news: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/09 ... education/

Why do you care then? It's a muslim minority, not a Turkish minority.

Minority members say they are Turkish and EU member Greece denies it in year 2013.