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The struggle of private sector teachers in four questions

The struggle of private sector teachers in four questions

Members of the Teachers' Union talked about the base salary, the Teaching Profession Law (ÖMK), and their problems and struggles.

13 June 2024 Ali Dinç

Education Ministry introduces white aprons for teachers

Education Ministry introduces white aprons for teachers

Critics belive that the move is related to the government’s discomfort over women teachers’ clothing.

13 November 2023

Police use pepper spray on teachers protesting for better wages, detain seven

Police use pepper spray on teachers protesting for better wages, detain seven

Private school teachers, who have long demanded better wages and working conditions, attempted to march to the Ministry of Education in Ankara.

Twenty-one teachers dismissed over 'terror ties' despite being acquitted

Twenty-one teachers dismissed over 'terror ties' despite being acquitted

The teachers in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır were detained last year in an investigation into the Democratic Society Congress.

1 December 2021

'Turkey quarantines 1,000 classrooms every day'

TEACHERS' UNION

'Turkey quarantines 1,000 classrooms every day'

While the ministry does not disclose information about Covid infections in schools, a union member has said about 10 percent of all teachers in the country are either Covid patients or contacts.

3 November 2021 Ruken Tuncel

‘87 percent of teachers fully vaccinated’

COVID-19 IN TURKEY

‘87 percent of teachers fully vaccinated’

Turkey’s Minister of National Education Özer has announced that 87 percent of teachers have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

26 October 2021

'Share of private schools in Turkey increased 10 fold in AKP era'

'Share of private schools in Turkey increased 10 fold in AKP era'

When the AKP came to power in 2002, two percent of the schools in the country were private schools. Now it's nearly 20 percent, says a trade union.

‘2 million children deprived of education in Turkey’

CHP CHAIR KILIÇDAROĞLU

‘2 million children deprived of education in Turkey’

Main opposition CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed President Erdoğan over his announcement that 15,000 new teachers will be appointed to work in public schools: “There is a need for 107,000 teachers and 43,627 classrooms.”

10 September 2021

1 million 167 thousand education personnel await vaccination in Turkey

26 TEACHERS DIED IN 45 DAYS

1 million 167 thousand education personnel await vaccination in Turkey

Speaking to bianet, Education Labor Union Chair Yıldırım has announced that 26 teachers have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the last 45 days and 254 teachers have died since the pandemic broke out in Turkey.

13 April 2021 Ruken Tuncel

Curfew Declared in İdil

Curfew Declared in İdil

The teachers in the district had been In-service-training invited to leave the district for an in-service-training earlier last week.

16 February 2016

Assignment-Seeking Kurdish Teachers on Strike

Assignment-Seeking Kurdish Teachers on Strike

Graduated from Kurdish Language Department, primary Kurdish teachers started an alternate hunger strike. “PM didn’t fulfill his promise. We are in the peace process and the promises should be fulfilled,” Yunus Aslan said.

27 August 2014 Nilay Vardar