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An opposition deputy has asked the government about reported plans by neighboring Greece to shut down 35 Turkish primary schools in Western Thrace as part of its austerity measures and reforms in education.
Republican People's Party (CHP) Bursa deputy Onur Öymen submitted a question in Parliament to Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, asking what measures the government is planning to take as Turkish schools face possible closure, news reports said on Wednesday.
The Turkish media reported last week that Greek authorities have decided to close down 35 of 57 primary schools in the Western Thrace region, home to Greece's Turkish minority. The Turkish community has expressed concern over the decision.
The Turkish Education Ministry released a statement saying the decision was a disappointment as Greek authorities did not consult with the Turkish community over the closure of the schools.
Öymen asked Davutoğlu what kind of initiatives the government has undertaken against the Greek decision which he said is "against the spirit and language of the Lausanne Treaty."
The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, one of the founding treaties of the Turkish Republic, obligates Turkey and Greece to grant and respect a broad array of rights for the Greek minority of İstanbul and the Turkish minority of Western Thrace. Such rights include equality before the law, free exercise of religion, free use of its own language, including in primary schools, and control over their own religious affairs.
The CHP deputy asked what Turkish government is planning to do if Greece does not rescind its decision.
Please read more about the Gullen movement here in U.S this movement is spreading very fast through the charter schools these schools in U.S have different names like Harmony school, School of Science they really promoting their own religious believes through the charter schools. They are about 154 school in U.S they propagating very fast taking the opportunities of many American Teachers. Some of these school having there just because the American Teacher fix everything than the Turkish Teachers do not know how to do they barely speak English but when they stall the students learning they used the American Teacher to fix it. In Texas these schools are propagating than other state. This movement uses many strategies of seduction to attract politics into their system. A senator in Texas Leticia VandePuete (in San Antonio Texas) recently visited Istanbul this is how the movement operates. Please check this website www.aaswat.net called Turkish Parliament proves closure of Gullen Schools, this are todays news. I know for a fact they trying to corrupt the school system here the same way they did in Turkey and around the world. The fact is that the Gullen movement is so strong in U.S because the offered Visas H1B to the Turkish teachers then they have to pay a high portion of their checks to keep this movement. In the schools the promote their sexist believes and indoctrinate students in changing their culture for they culture and believes , they separate boys and girls, most of the girls are not accepted in their robotics classes and normally they exclude women teachers from administrative positions.
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