A number of thousand Turkish Cypriot demonstrators required to the streets of north Nicosia on Friday to object a brand-new policy allowing trainees to use the hijab at public high schools, according to regional media reports.
Legislating the hijab in schools becomes part of a strategy to “enforce political Islam on society,” Turkish Cypriot secondary education instructors’ trade union leader Selma Eylem informed protestors.
” We are calling out to those who overlook our nonreligious education and our nonreligious society,” she was pointed out as stating.
Protestors shouted “Cyprus is nonreligious, and will stay nonreligious,” and “AKP [an abbreviation for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party], get your hands off our kids,” throughout the march.
In March, authorities of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TNRC) changed a school disciplinary code to legislate the using of the hijab at public schools, after an eighth-grade trainee was disallowed from getting in a Nicosia school due to the fact that she was using a hijab. A video of the event went viral.
Intermediate school will be allowed to embrace the guideline at their discretion.
Turkish Cypriots have actually condemned the modification, declaring that it threatens the neighborhood’s nonreligious customs which it is the most recent example of Turkey’s growing impact in the area.
Over 100 labor unions have actually now required a basic strike, requiring that the modification be reversed.
Protecting the policy
” There are those with faiths and those without. Some go to mosques, others do not. These are individual options,” stated Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar throughout an early morning tv program on Friday.
The breakaway TNRC is just acknowledged by Turkey, and its Turkish Cypriot management is looking for worldwide acknowledgment.
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