JINHA

AMED – As thousands of teachers of the Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been suspended from their duties following declaration the state of emergency in Turkey. The first day of the school year began with TOMA and Turkish flags. “Do they protect our children from their teachers? Their teachers do not harm our children,” said parents.

Thousands of teachers, mostly members of the Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim-SEN) have been suspended from their duties following declaration of the state of emergency in Turkey. The new school year has begun today. Parents and children react to the suspending of thousands of teachers. As TOMAs (Intervention Vehicles to Social Events) are waiting in front of schools and Turkish flags have hanged on the school walls. Parents said, “They cannot silence everybody who speaks. They think themselves as sultans, they write rights and laws again. Our children haven’t teachers and the schools are empty.”

The parents, who wait in front of Süleyman Demirel Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, reacted to TOMA in front of the school and said, “Do they protect our chidren or themselves? Do they protect our children from their teachers? These death machines should withdraw from schools; our children’s teachers do not harm our children. We want the teachers to be given back their duties. If it stays like this, we won’t send our children to schools. Somehow or other our children will be suspended from their duties or arrested for being the Kurds even if they have a profession.”

Students in İnönü Secondary School don’t go their classes because 33 teachers of the school have been suspended from their duties. The students want their teachers back so they don’t attend the classes.

Many children haven’t attended the classes in Yunus Emre Primary School and Koşuyolu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School.


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