Kurdish Education Gets Off to a Troubled Start in Turkey

[Francis Hult]

Wall Street Journal



Kurdish Education Gets Off to a Troubled Start in Turkey



In a small but significant step towards more cultural rights for Turkey’s estimated 15 million Kurds, subjects such as mathematics and geography will be taught in three private pilot schools in Kurdish, according to three Kurdish civil organizations providing the teaching. Some 300 pupils have enrolled so far.



But this isn’t enough, the NGOs say. They are calling for Kurdish parents to boycott Turkish-language state schools in the first week of the school year, and demand public Kurdish schools.



Full story:
http://blogs.wsj.com/middleeast/2014/09/12/kurdish-education-gets-off-to-a-troubled-start-in-turkey/
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