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CHILDREN OF ARMENIAN IRREGULAR IMMIGRANTS TO ATTEND COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IN TURKEY
PanARMENIAN.Net
September 2, 2011 - 17:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey's Education Minister Omer Dincer had given his
permission to allow Armenian children residing in Turkey as irregular
immigrants to unofficially attend classes in Armenian schools in the
next school year, Today's Zaman reported.
This comes shortly after Turkey announced it would return all property
confiscated from religious minority foundations and associations
during the early republican era. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
also approved the decision to let children from Armenia attend the
schools as guest students.
"The ministry has given the necessary permission and we are very
happy about this," Deputy Patriarch AteÅ~_yan stated.
He said the Armenian community has been fighting to allow irregular
immigrants to attend Armenian schools for two years. According to
AteÅ~_yan, about 1,000 children from Armenia are living in Turkey
with their parents, who have come for work but have no papers.
In another development, the International Russian School in Antalya,
which follows the Russian Federation's education curriculum, started
its school year on Sept. 1, when schools open in Russia. There are
70 Russian students in the school's elementary section. The school's
principal, Victor Bikkenev, said the diplomas earned by the students
in the school are valid in Russia. Classes are conducted in Russian
at the school, which also offers Turkish, English and German classes.
From: A. Papazian
PanARMENIAN.Net
September 2, 2011 - 17:44 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey's Education Minister Omer Dincer had given his
permission to allow Armenian children residing in Turkey as irregular
immigrants to unofficially attend classes in Armenian schools in the
next school year, Today's Zaman reported.
This comes shortly after Turkey announced it would return all property
confiscated from religious minority foundations and associations
during the early republican era. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
also approved the decision to let children from Armenia attend the
schools as guest students.
"The ministry has given the necessary permission and we are very
happy about this," Deputy Patriarch AteÅ~_yan stated.
He said the Armenian community has been fighting to allow irregular
immigrants to attend Armenian schools for two years. According to
AteÅ~_yan, about 1,000 children from Armenia are living in Turkey
with their parents, who have come for work but have no papers.
In another development, the International Russian School in Antalya,
which follows the Russian Federation's education curriculum, started
its school year on Sept. 1, when schools open in Russia. There are
70 Russian students in the school's elementary section. The school's
principal, Victor Bikkenev, said the diplomas earned by the students
in the school are valid in Russia. Classes are conducted in Russian
at the school, which also offers Turkish, English and German classes.
From: A. Papazian