Kuruoğlu Reacts to the Decision to Close Turkish Schools: 'An Unacceptable Interference with the Right to Education in the Mother Tongue'

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The decision to close eight Turkish minority primary schools in Western Thrace on the grounds of "insufficient student numbers" has drawn criticism from Levent Kuruoğlu, the General President of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (Hür Sen) and the Free Education Union. Kuruoğlu stated that the decision is an unacceptable interference with the right to education and that it is incompatible with the obligations arising from the Treaty of Lausa…