The Greek Ministry of Education has closed five more Turkish schools on the pretext of insufficient number of students in Western Thrace.
The opposite situation occurs in Turkey.
The Greek Primary School and High School in Çanakkale Gökçeada were opened to education in 2013 and 2015 after the renovation works and nearly 40 students started to receive education.
THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS LESS, EXCUSE!
The decision, which was published in the July 31 issue of the Official Gazette, stated that the Turkish primary schools in Büyük Doğanca, Bulduklu, Melikli and Dündarlı villages in Rhodope and the Turkish primary school in Zeynelli village in Xanthi were temporarily suspended from the 2019-2020 academic year. With the decision in question, the number of Turkish minority primary schools that have been closed down since 2011 due to lack of students has reached 65.
ILLEGALLY CLOSED!
Salih Ahmet, President of Teachers' Association, graduated from Thessaloniki Private Pedagogical Academy, "Closing or merging minority schools with the excuse of inadequate students is a wrong practice that does not contribute to education. Minority schools have a different status and the work and closure of schools should be done according to the law. According to the legislation, the consent of the committee committee of a minority school should be obtained when the school is closed," he said.
Lock on mosque doors
The Ottoman heritage mosques in the capital city of Athens and Western Thrace are closed one by one with various lies. The most famous excuse of the Greek government is the restoration after the earthquake.
Damaged mosques on Kos Island in the earthquake of July 2017 have been closed since then. The lands belonging to the Kos Islamic Foundation were also sold to a tourism company.
The restoration of the mosques in the region is an excuse for the sale of the land, but the two mosques in the region have been closed for two years.
REDUCED FROM 1933 TO 877
Since 2011, the number of schools in Greece has been reduced from 1933 to 877, and in this context, 14 minority schools were first closed in Western Thrace.
The decision, which was published in the July 31 issue of the Official Gazette, stated that the Turkish primary schools in Büyük Doğanca, Bulduklu, Melikli and Dündarlı villages in Rhodope and the Turkish primary school in Zeynelli village in Xanthi were temporarily suspended from the 2019-2020 academic year.
With the decision in question, the number of Turkish minority primary schools that have been closed down since 2011 due to lack of students has reached 65. Salih Ahmet, President of the Teachers' Association, graduated from the Special Pedagogical Academy of Thessaloniki (Rhodope-Meriç), "Minority schools have a different status and the work and closure of these schools should be done according to the law," he said.
MOSQUES ARE CLOSED
In Greece, including the capital Athens, especially in Western Thrace, the Ottoman heritage mosques are closed with various lies one by one.
The most famous excuse of the Greek government is the restoration excuse after the earthquake.
Damaged mosques on Kos Island in the earthquake of July 2017 have been closed since then. The lands belonging to the Kos Islamic Foundation were also sold to a tourism company.
The restoration of the mosques in the region is an excuse for the sale of the land, but the two mosques in the region have been closed for two years.
More than 70 properties belonging to the foundation, mostly land, were transferred or sold. Most of these lands were transferred to municipalities for the purpose of parking, parking or cemetery and were taken away from the foundation.
ATHENS DOES NOT CARE
Ahmet said that the Greek Ministry of Education has seriously objected to the implementation of minority schools by teachers and members of Western Thrace Turkish Minorities, but that they have not been taken into consideration by Athens.
Ahmet, "Without the consent of the minority guardian, without considering the sensitivities of the minority, we state that we are against these closures which are not aimed at reducing the number of schools and we demand that this decision be returned as soon as possible. Our schools should not be seen as institutions that need to be closed and should not be the institutions that are remembered only to be closed. We expect the new government to take measures to keep these schools alive, not to close or destroy them. In Greece, in 2011, within the scope of the practice of merging “schools, which was supposed to be“ better education by reducing the expenses in the field of education, the number of schools across the country was reduced from 1933 to 877, and in this context, 14 minority schools were first closed in Western Thrace, where the number of students was low," he added.