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[humanist]

Has the RoC undertaken to employee Turkish Speaking Cypriots nurses, social workers, bus drivers, etc? does the Rock have Turkish road signs, street names, does the RoC have public holidays in respect of turkish speaking cypriots? When the RoC implements this then she is ready to talk UNIFICATION.

[G.Man]

No but they teach turkish in the schools, so they may have some turkish speaking workers in the future...

by the way, just how many greek road signs, street names, greek speaking workers and greek language lessons in schools do you have in the north?

[Viewpoint]

No but they teach turkish in the schools, so they may have some turkish speaking workers in the future...

by the way, just how many greek road signs, street names, greek speaking workers and greek language lessons in schools do you have in the north?

What you conveniently forget is that the TRNC does not claim to represent Gcs like the "RoC" who falsely claim for international benefit that the GC administration represents TCs which is totally incorrect as we did not vote for these people.

We have a Greek Cypriot School do you have a Turkish Cypriot School?

No you don't.....if Turkish is an equal official language in the "RoC" then surely is should be compulsorily taught to all your children. Do you have any GC children who speak any Turkish? but the few TC children in the south can speak fluent Greek, why is that?

[humanist]

What is your point VP?

And you made a huge assumption that I am Turkish Speaking Cypriot, G-Man

[Viewpoint]

What is your point VP?

And you made a huge assumption that I am Turkish Speaking Cypriot, G-Man

I think my post is pretty clear and was aimed at G.Man who commented about the TRNC having Greek signs, schools etc, we don't claim to represent GCs but GCs falsely claim to represent us and I provided a few examples.

[askimwos]

There are some TC employed in the Governmental Sector and as far as I am aware TCs can apply for most posts in the various government services and take their exams in Turkish and English rather than in greek and english as is the case for GCs. Of course the numbers employed are quite small since there is not that much interest from the TCs to apply. I myself have a very close TC friend that works for a government service. There are a few though employed in the private sector, I personally know a couple of nurses employed in private clinics. I do believe that this is not enough and that the government should do more to attract more TCs to apply for government jobs.

As for schools most of the teachers that teach in schools where there are TC kids are TC themselves. Lately there has been an argument from the TC teachers union that these teachers should be primary school teachers and not secondary school teachers as is the case with most of them. To be honest I don't know what happened with this issue as I haven't followed the story.

There are quite a few roads with turkish and tc names especially in the old city centers, however most of the road signs with some exceptions are in english and greek.

Finally yes there are official turkish public holidays, the TCs civil servants can choose to have 10 "turkish" public holidays instead of the 10 the 10 that apply for GCs. The same goes for the Armenian and Latin communities that they have their public holidays. The 10 public holidays that TCs are entitled to are:

29 October (National day of the Turkish Republic)
Birthday of the Prophet
Ramazan Bairam (2 days)
Kourpan Bairam (3 days)
23 April
19 May
30 August

In addition Tcs take anothr 3 days that are common for all communities. These are: 1st January, 1st May, 1st October (Cyprus Independence day)

[humanist]

that is also very correct, then why do you have a greek speaking school and where is it? do you despise greek speaking Cypriots living in the north as you despise those living in the south?

[Viewpoint]

that is also very correct, then why do you have a greek speaking school and where is it? do you despise greek speaking Cypriots living in the north as you despise those living in the south?

The TRNC grants them the right to study in their own language as a minority (Karpas) Greek is not an official language in the TRNC, but Turkish is in the south equally weighted with Greek but not taught to GC kids, why is that?

[Strahd]

that is also very correct, then why do you have a greek speaking school and where is it? do you despise greek speaking Cypriots living in the north as you despise those living in the south?

The TRNC grants them the right to study in their own language as a minority (Karpas) Greek is not an official language in the TRNC, but Turkish is in the south equally weighted with Greek but not taught to GC kids, why is that?

Education according to the RoC constitution is a community driven aspect. The two ethnic communities in Cyprus are responsible for their own education separately. It is not required by the establishment of the RoC that the other language is obligatory in the community schools. Therefore Greek schools are not obliged to Teach Turkish and the other way round. That's the system employed in all multilingual countries like Switzerland, Belgium etc. And that is why all the official documents can be found in both languages of this country.

[Viewpoint]

that is also very correct, then why do you have a greek speaking school and where is it? do you despise greek speaking Cypriots living in the north as you despise those living in the south?

The TRNC grants them the right to study in their own language as a minority (Karpas) Greek is not an official language in the TRNC, but Turkish is in the south equally weighted with Greek but not taught to GC kids, why is that?

Education according to the RoC constitution is a community driven aspect. The two ethnic communities in Cyprus are responsible for their own education separately. It is not required by the establishment of the RoC that the other language is obligatory in the community schools. Therefore Greek schools are not obliged to Teach Turkish and the other way round. That's the system employed in all multilingual countries like Switzerland, Belgium etc. And that is why all the official documents can be found in both languages of this country.

Then why do you need a GC school in the TRNC, these GC children could have attended a TC school like TC children attend GC schools in the south.