Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Mass Suspensions of Teachers Stoke Concern in Turkey’s Kurdish Region

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Educators in Turkey are at the center of a crackdown, with more than 12,000 teachers suspended for alleged links to the Kurdish rebel group, the PKK. A third of them work in Diyarbakir, a predominantly Kurdish area. At the local office of the educators' union, Egitim-Sen, a lawyer, gave advice to teachers recently suspended or charged on suspicion of supporting terrorism. Over a quarter of Diyarbakir’s 17,000 teachers have been affected by the crackdown. One teacher...

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