Education Under Attack 2020 Report Published by GCPEA

Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) has published their report “Education Under Attack 2020”.

GCPEA is an inter-agency coalition created in 2010 to resolve the issue of targeted attacks on education institutions, their students, and staff in countries affected by armed conflict and insecurity.

Palestinian girls attend a class at the Suhada Khouza school building, which was damaged during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas militants in the summer of 2014, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 5, 2015. In a report on the impact of conflict on education in six countries and territories across the Middle East and North Africa region, the United Nations children fund UNICEF said more than 8,850 schools were no longer usable due to violence, with around 13 million children being denied an education. AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB. (Photo credit should read SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)

In this report, GCPEA monitors the attacks on schools, universities, students, and staff between 2015-2019.

According to the report, there were more than 11.000 reported attacks, with casualties of 22.000 students and educators in at least 93 countries. The report covers 37 countries where at least ten attacks took place between 2015-2019.

GCPEA describes attacks on education as any threatened or actual use of force against students, teachers, academics, education support and transport staff (e.g., janitors, bus drivers), education officials, education buildings, resources, or facilities (including school buses). According to GCPEA, attacks on education kill or injure students or educators, lead to student dropouts and closures of educational facilities. Moreover, these attacks reduce academic quality and have catastrophic long-term societal impacts.

TOPSHOT – A Yemeni boy school writes as he sits outside a school on March 16, 2017, that was damaged in an airstrike in the southern Yemeni city of Taez. The conflict in Yemen, which escalated with the intervention of the Saudi-led coalition two years ago, has more than doubled the number of children deprived of schooling to some 3.5 million, threatening the future of a whole generation in the impoverished country. / AFP PHOTO / Ahmad AL-BASHA (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-BASHA/AFP via Getty Images)

The full report has several parts such as attacks on schools, attacks on students & staff, military use of schools, child recruitment, sexual violence, attacks on higher education, and targeted attacks on girls and women. Each topic is explained elaborately for all 37 countries covered.

The organization offers a solution to these attacks by coming up with a list of recommendations for national governments, international agencies, and local civil society, including school and university communities.

You can find the full report at the following link:  https://eua2020.protectingeducation.org/

Press Release: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Racial discrimination is any discrimination against any individual based on their skin color or racial or ethnic origin.[1] Systemic racism and discrimination are rooted in society’s structure, governments, the workplace, courts, police, and education institutions. Racism can be explicit but often exists in implicit, subtle, and insidious forms that can be hard to pin down.

As Broken Chalk[2], we would like to celebrate International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.[3] United Nations celebrated this year’s day with the theme of “Youth standing up against racism.”

Education plays an essential role in solving social problems and building a multicultural environment where there is no racism and discrimination. It plays a vital role in preparing the young generation for active participation in society and promoting solidarity and tolerance. Education should enable young people to acquire the sensitivities and skills needed to succeed in different communities. Unfortunately,  educational environments are at the forefront in meeting this need. Ethnic and religious minorities are still lagging in enjoying all their education rights. Racism and discrimination continue to show up in education systems in many ways today, such as; access to rights and education, bullying and harassment, discrimination in school, dropouts, educational attainment, emotional and symbolic violence, and monitoring and correction mechanisms.[4]

According to the YMCA’s Young and Black report[5], 95% of young none-white people in the U.K. have heard or witnessed racist language at school, with 51% of males saying they heard it “all the time”. Afro-American students are three times more likely to be suspended or expelled than their White peers.[6]

Structural inequalities and discrimination in our societies have increased more with the Covid-19 outbreak. There are new types of inequality and discrimination, particularly in healthcare, vaccines, and economics which the World is facing.  Access to education is a big challenge in many countries. Students and teachers are facing new types of discrimination due to pandemics.

All the E.U. member states are prohibited from direct and indirect racial discrimination in their national constitutions. But the overwhelming majority of the E.U. Member States do not restrict these types of unequal treatment in their education laws. Out of 28 E.U. member states, only nine states prohibited direct racial discrimination while only seven states prohibited indirect racial discrimination in their educational laws. Besides, there are only six states that refused harassment in education laws.[7]

Here we only mentioned the figure in the European Countries. European countries should immediately implement such laws in their constitutions to Eliminate Racial Discrimination.

An education provided equally, with inclusive teaching and learning materials, is a powerful preventive tool and antidote for conflict. Tackling structural racism requires a collaborative, society-wide effort. To Elimination Racial Discrimination, Broken Chalk asked all the governments and stakeholders to take this issue as the number one task in their educational plan. All the education ministers of the states should try their best to Eliminate Racial Discrimination in schools.

 

Broken Chalk announces it to the public with due respect.

Broken Chalk

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_discrimination

[2] Broken Chalk is a human rights organization and mainly concentrates on violations in the educational field.

[3] The UN General Assembly resolution 2142 (XXI)(link is external), adopted on 26 October 1966, proclaimed 21 March as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to be commemorated annually. from https://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/2142%20(XXI)

[4] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330324073_Fighting_racism_and_promoting_equal_rights_in_the_field_of_education

[5] https://www.ymca.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ymca-young-and-black.pdf

[6] https://www.thoughtco.com/how-racism-affects-public-school-minorities-4025361

[7] https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/racial_discrimination_in_education_and_eu_equality_law_web.pdf

Press Release: Deputy Gergerlioğlu[1] was arrested and expelled from the Turkish Parliament.

Human rights violations in Tukey are increasing every individual day. Moreover, it is not easy for human rights defender to do their work.

Broken Chalk condemns the decision to strip human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu of his parliamentary seat and parliamentary immunity on and his detention.

Gergerlioglu’s conviction, expulsion from the Parliament, and detention undermine Turkey’s parliamentary democracy’s trust.  He was sentenced to 2 years and six months due to a social media post still available.[2]  His case is another example of the terrifying situation of freedom of speech in the country, the abuse of anti-terror measures to silence any critical voice, and the particular crackdown on the opposition in an attempt to limit pluralism.[3]

Turkish President presented a new Human Rights Action Plan[4] just three weeks before Gergerlioğlu’s expulsion from Parliament and his detention. That proves the Turkish Government is not ready to implement Human Rights Action Plan in the country.  Actions speak louder than words, and in this case, they talk notably louder than any promise of legal reforms and any speech towards the public.[5]

Gergerlioğlu firmly stands against all kinds of human rights violations in Turkey. He uses his political position to fight the Human Right Violations in the country. He has been the voice of victims of emergency decree laws, those who were subjected to torture and ill-treatment in prisons and police stations, those whose social and cultural rights were ignored in the Turkish Parliament. Nowadays, he was targeted by the parliament members of the ruling party (AKP).

There was a strip search on female university students in Usak[6]. Gergerlioglu increases his voice against this horrible act[7] and got support from many people within Turkey. People who face strip search publish their stories on social media.

In this respect, protecting human rights is becoming more complex every day in Turkey. Government increases its control on NGO’s and human rights defenders are doing their work under the pressure of the Turkish Government. At Broken Chalk, one of our primary duties is to protect and support all human rights defenders worldwide.

We call upon Turkish authorities to stop Human Rights violations that are done by Governmental bodies.  The Turkish Government should act according to its commitments to European standards and the international conventions that Turkey is a party to.

We express our support and solidarity with him and his family and continue to fight against human rights violations. We urge all human rights bodies, defenders, and stakeholders to stand for human rights, peace, and democracy in solidarity with him against injustice.

Broken Chalk announces it to the public with due respect.

Broken Chalk

[1] Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu (born 2 November 1964, in Şarkikaraağaç, Turkey) is a medical doctor (pulmonologist), human rights activist and an MP (Member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly – TBMM) for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). He has dedicated his political career to fighting

[2] https://bianet.org/english/politics/239629-court-of-cassation-upholds-hdp-deputy-gergerlioglu-s-prison-sentence

[3] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210317IPR00117/leading-meps-condemn-another-example-of-crackdown-on-opposition-in-turkey?xtor=AD-78-[Social_share_buttons]-[twitter]-[en]-[news]-[pressroom]-[leading-meps-condemn-another-example-of-crackdown-on-opposition-in-turkey]-

[4] https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/new-human-rights-plan-for-the-people-turkish-leader/2162111

[5] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210317IPR00117/leading-meps-condemn-another-example-of-crackdown-on-opposition-in-turkey?xtor=AD-78-[Social_share_buttons]-[twitter]-[en]-[news]-[pressroom]-[leading-meps-condemn-another-example-of-crackdown-on-opposition-in-turkey]-

[6] https://www.duvarenglish.com/strip-search-sexual-violence-claims-in-turkish-prisons-prompt-outrage-news-55501

[7] I will not give up following the incident in which the young female students got strip-searched on 31 August in Usak Police HQ. https://twitter.com/gergerlioglueng/status/1338956656151994369

Turkish gov’t targets Gergerlioglu[1] a prominent human rights defender

There are several human rights violations are going on in Turkey. And also, it is not easy for human rights defender to do their work. Amnesty International Turkey’s former Chair, Taner Kılıç, has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison for membership of the Gülen movement.[2]

He is an activist, human rights defender, and a Turkish Parliament member (People’s Democracy Party-HDP) named Omer Faruk Gergelioglu. Gergerlioğlu had been dismissed from the medical profession by a decree (KHK) issued under the state of emergency on January 7, 2017. Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu was sentenced to two years and six months in prison on February 21 for social media posts about the Kurdish issue and the breakdown of the peace process in 2015.


He firmly stands against all kinds of human rights violations in Turkey. Nowadays, he was targeted by the parliament members of the ruling party (AKP). There was a strip search on female university students in Usak[3]. Gergerlioglu increases his voice against this horrible act[4] and got support from many people within Turkey. People who face strip search publish their stories on social media.


Gergerlioğlu said. “They attack me because I oppose sexual harassment of women, men, and children, and because all of the public is with me, the nation is behind me,”

The Following sentence has belonged to Ozlem Zengin, deputy head of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) bloc in parliament.

No parliamentarian terrorizes parliament as much as Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu. I categorically do not believe that strip searches exist in Turkey. Such a thing does not exist,” [5]

Furthermore, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has branded HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu a “terrorist” after the latter exposed the practice of strip searches by police.[6] Soylu also called the judiciary to open a case against Gergerlioglu, and he said, “I here call on the judiciary. This man is a terrorist. We have filed several lawsuits against him; do what is necessary,” [7]

After the above calls, a few days ago, a summary was prepared against Gergerlioğlu for his tweet about the arrests of mothers with babies, accusing of ‘provoking the public to hatred and hostility’ by Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.[8]

Most media outlets are under the Government’s control; they are writing against the Gergerlioglu.[9] [10] Their main aim is to stop Gergerlioglu’s activities as a human rights defender. He is among the few figures in Turkey who firmly stands against the human rights violation. Turkey needs human rights defender like him these days more than ever.

In this respect, Protecting human rights is becoming more difficult every day in Turkey. Government increases its control on NGO’s[11] and human rights defenders are doing their work under the pressure of the Turkish Government. At Broken Chalk, one of our primary duties is to protect and support all human rights defenders worldwide.

If the human rights defenders and organizations present their support to him openly, the Turkish Government will reduce her pressure on Gergerlioglu. Moreover, Gergerlioglu increases his voice and fights against the violations of human rights in Turkey.

Broken Chalk

[1] Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu (born 2 November 1964, in Şarkikaraağaç, Turkey) is a medical doctor (pulmonologist), human rights activist and an MP (Member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly – TBMM) for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). He has dedicated his political career to fighting against human rights violations in Turkey.

[2] https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/turkey-amnesty-chair-convicted-travesty-justice

[3] https://www.duvarenglish.com/strip-search-sexual-violence-claims-in-turkish-prisons-prompt-outrage-news-55501

[4] I will not give up following the incident in which the young female students got strip-searched on 31 August in Usak Police HQ. https://twitter.com/gergerlioglueng/status/1338956656151994369

[5] https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/22122020

[6] https://www.duvarenglish.com/turkish-interior-minister-suleyman-soylu-brands-hdp-mp-omer-faruk-gergerlioglu-terrorist-for-exposing-practice-of-strip-searches-in-police-custody-news-55621

[7] https://www.duvarenglish.com/turkish-interior-minister-suleyman-soylu-brands-hdp-mp-omer-faruk-gergerlioglu-terrorist-for-exposing-practice-of-strip-searches-in-police-custody-news-55621

[8] http://mezopotamyaajansi25.com/en/ALL-NEWS/content/view/121659

[9] https://www.sabah.com.tr/gundem/2020/12/24/son-dakika-icisleri-bakani-soyludan-hdpli-gergerliogluna-bu-adam-muptezeldir-teroristtir

[10] https://www.trthaber.com/haber/gundem/bakan-soylu-gergerlioglu-fetocu-bir-teroristtir-540659.html

[11] https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-tightens-control-over-ngos-to-combat-terrorism/a-56088205

Recover and Revitalize Education for the COVID-19 Generation

International Day of Education (January 24, 2021) with theme Recover and Revitalize Education for the COVID-19 Generation. 24th Jan. 2021 Time: 19:00 – 21:00 (CET)

Without quality education and lifelong learning for all, we will not succeed in addressing the challenges of our world. This requires investment, coordination, and multilateralism; rethinking what and how we learn, with those who are on the frontlines and will be the actors and citizens of tomorrow: teachers and young people. – Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director-General

 

Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpduqorj0vEtyvq02-7AuofJM2gdsGKKIA

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Pc4-8C4Dv9I

Speakers:

Professor Emeritus in English with 60 years in education, and author of Gulen’s Dialogue on Education: A Caravanserai of Ideas. In 1986, I authored “Thomas Jefferson of Turkey[TURKIYE’ NIN THOMAS JEFFERSON’I.]” Turing[ISTANBUL] ED. YAYIN MUDURU [ISTANBUL]: TURKIYE TURING VE OTOMOBIL KURUMU, 1986, SAYI 75/354, 1986, p, 101-113. An article in Turkish about Chelik Gulersoy and dealing with the restoration of Osmanli Architecture from Bolu to the Greek border.

From 2010 to 2015, Gage chaired the International Youth Platform for the Gūlen Institute of Houston, TX., with awards to secondary school winners of writing presented in the U.S. Congress.

In addition to my academic career as a Business, Management, and Organization specialist, I also worked as a University Manager. In addition, I worked as an education manager with Mathematics Teacher for many years.

 

 

Professor of education and culture has a Ph.D. in “values education” with the background of bachelor’s degree as a Sociologist. In his teachings, training, researches, and publications, he specifically focuses on pedagogy, values, and society. Has taught in different countries, in multicultural societies, and got overseas experiences.

 

I did my undergraduate education at Anadolu University Preschool Teaching. I completed my master’s degree in Gaziantep University Psychological Counseling and Guidance.  I also received Family Counseling Training at two different universities.  Afterward, I received training in sexual, play, relationship therapy, sexual abuse, solution-oriented counseling, special education, picture interpretation, application of objective tests, family, life, and student coaching, and I applied these to both parents and students in my professional life.  I held both professional and managerial positions for 10 years.  I am currently studying software development and yoga expertise.  I am a columnist for a local newspaper.  I am also writing a book for adults with the theme “Love and Compassion” and writing children’s stories about “bringing universal values ​​to children”.

I have previously researched the “effect of divorce on children and family”.  Last month, I made a presentation at an international program “The secret of success” as the main guest in an international program.  Also in 2016 the psychology of women who are forced to emigrate from Turkey, “I want to write a doctoral thesis about and I want to continue my education in this field.

He thought in high school and college-level computer science in various classes in Tanzania, South Africa, Turkey, Mozambique, and the United States. He currently lives in the United States of America and besides giving computer lessons in High School and University, he provides technical support to other trainers by doing Educational Technology Coaching.

 

 

Since 1993, he has worked in educational institutions abroad.

 

 

Yusuf Incetas, Ph.D., was born into a Turkish Gastarbeiter family in Germany. He started elementary school there but later finished his secondary and college education in Turkey. He lived and worked in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, and the United States. After serving in the U.S. army, he worked as a certified public school teacher in Illinois, taught English as a second language at Harvard University, and pursued a career as a Turkish language instructor at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. He currently holds an associate professor of education position at Heritage University, the only higher education institution founded on Yakama Nation land. He has a Ph.D. in secondary and continuing education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has a cat named Groot.

 

Get his BSc. Mathematics from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Work as a school leader and teacher for 15 years in Ghana, Iraq, and Nigeria. After moving to the Netherlands takes three different IT courses and today work as a System Engineer at Fujitsu, Netherlands. Dedicated his life to fighting against Human Rights Violations.

 

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I graduated with a biology education. I worked as a teacher project coordinator for many years. I worked as an academician in a private university for 2 years and 4 years at the state university. We have projects in NASA and other international institutions and works with patent applications.

 

 

Thrived on helping people from diverse backgrounds to create new opportunities in their career path by using counseling skills and flourishing their strengths with the help of positive psychology.
Muavviz believes in promoting environmental awareness, living environmentally friendly, and targeting to reach universal sustainability goals, global citizen

Hakan Gök studied Physics at Middle East Technical University between 1990-1995. He worked as a physics teacher in many countries. He completed his Master’s and Doctorate education in England. His doctorate on “The Greatness of God in Risale-i Nur”, which he completed at the University of Durham, was published in the United States as a book titled “Atheism or Theism: The Perspective of Said Nursi”
Hakan Gök taught at Mevlana University, Turkey for three years. He is currently working at Leeds Beckett University in England.

The State of Impunity in Turkey Today

The human rights violations in Turkey is rapidly increasing in recent years. Because of that reason, the International Observatory of Human Rights has taken the initiative to set up a “Turkey Tribunal.” The Tribunal is not a legally binding body. But the ruling of the Tribunal will have high moral authority.[1]

A Flemish initiative assembled an international panel of judges in Geneva and presented it with human rights violations in Turkey. The initiative is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Johan Vande Lanotte, professor at the University of Ghent, who at the end of the 1980s was one of the first in the Flanders region in Belgium to give a fully-fledged Human Rights course.[2]

Turkey Tribunal is organizing a webinar for public awareness. The third one will be State of Impunity in Turkey Today.

The speakers that include the authors of the report, real witnesses, legal and human rights experts will be discussing the finding of the story that answer two main questions:

1. Is there an internal system of preventing and monitoring torture or mistreatment, and if yes, how does it function in reality?

2. Is there an efficient system of sanctioning possible torture or mistreatment, or can we speak of organized impunity towards torture or abuse against people held in detention?

It is possible to join the webinar from the following link

To get more information on Turkey Tribunal with this link. 

[1] https://turkeytribunal.com/why-a-turkey-tribunal/

[2] https://turkeytribunal.com/who-are-the-initiative-takers%e2%80%8b/

Webinar on International Day of Education

Get Involved

International Day of Education (January 24, 2021) with theme Recover and Revitalize Education for the COVID-19 Generation

We are looking for academics, educators, learners, and innovators to speak. You may talk or present your report in one of the following categories, or you may choose your subject.

  1. Effects of COVID-19 on Education.
  2. Should States include human rights in the school curriculum?
  3. The ways of improving online teaching.
  4. How to eliminate the harmful effects of lockdown to the students.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail to r.ince@brokencalk.org

from https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/educationday

Education is a human right, a public good, and a public responsibility.

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 January as International Day of Education(link is external), in celebration of the role of education for peace and development.

Without inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong opportunities for all, countries will not succeed in achieving gender equality and breaking the cycle of poverty that is leaving millions of children, youth, and adults behind.

Today, 258 million children and youth still do not attend school; 617 million children and adolescents cannot read and do basic math; less than 40% of girls in sub-Saharan Africa complete lower secondary school, and some four million children and youth refugees are out of school. Their right to education is being violated and it is unacceptable.

Security forces arresting protesters and carrying out raids on students’ homes.

Bogazici University students and academicians are using their basic human rights and protesting the appointment of the new rector into their university. But the Turkish Security forces are responding unfairly and undemocratically.

 

In a statement, the university faculty members declared that they would not accept President Erdogan’s appointment as the rector of Bogazici University, Melih Bulu[1] since it violates the academic freedom and independence and the democratic values of Bogazici University.

Bulu was the first rector appointed from outside a university since a 1980 military coup and part of increasing the Turkish Government’s anti-democratic practices after the failed coup attached 2016.

Bogazici students gathered in front of the university to protest the appointment of Bulu.

“We do not want a trustee as a rector.”

“Melih Bulu is not our rector”

“The universities have been and always will be ours.”

“The universities will become free with us.”

Police have arrested 36 university students due to protesting Melih Bulu as rector of Boğaziçi University since the protests began. Security forces on Tuesday began arresting protesters and carrying out raids on students’ homes.

Sixty-three alumni of Boğaziçi University, including writers and artists, have released a joint statement against a pro-government rector’s appointment.

A rector appointed without a democratic process would harm the traditional values that Boğaziçi has represented for 150 years, they said and cited the principles that the university accepted in 2012:

  • It is indispensable for scientific and social development that universities are not exposed to any person or institution’s influence or pressure and not used as a political instrument.
  • It is essential for autonomy that democratically elected committees and academic administrators have the decision-making authority. Educational administrators such as rectos, demand, institution directors, academy directors, and department chairs should be determined not by appointments but by-elections.
  • It is a condition of scientific freedom and creativity that universities, as autonomous constitutional institutions, determine their academic programs and research programs with academic staff and/or university committees’ decisions.

“Considering the contribution of freedom of thought to human creativity, we put our signature under the basic values stated above ​​to maintain the free and democratic environment, which is in the tradition of Boğaziçi University,” says the statement.[2]

 

Broken Chalk

[1] Melih Bulu was appointed rector on January 1 by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and is a member of his ruling Justice and Development Party, AKP. He was rector of Halic University in Istanbul before assuming his new post.

[2] https://bianet.org/english/education/237258-bogazici-alumni-academics-continue-to-protest-rector-appointed-by-erdogan

 

Press Release: Ukraine extradited two teachers to Turkey

Ukrainian soldiers arrested Salih Fidan[1] and Samet Gure[2] while trying to illegally cross the Ukraine-Poland border, which alleged the pair were members of the Gulen Movement.

President Zelensky personally invited people who suffer from political persecution, and he promised asylum and even passports.[3] The act of extraditing is unbelievable and unacceptable. According to the number of applications to The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Turkey is the second country after Russia.

 

Samet Gure and Salih Fidan at the Airport in Kyiv

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Ukraine is trying to extradite two teachers to Turkey

Two teachers, who spent New Year’s Eve in the city, were detained on the allegation of an illegal attempt to cross the state border. Currently standing at Kiev Boryspil International Airport teacher who asked to be deported to Turkey.*

Samet Güre said:

“My name is Samet Güre and my name is Salih Fidan. We came to Ukraine and we had a ticket to Dubai, and from Dubai to Erbil, but the soldiers forced us to go to Turkey. They said that at 8 o`clock we have a flight to Dubai, but they say lie, and we checked everything and there is no flight. We know that they are forcing us to go to Turkey. Now we are seeking asylum, we were talking with all these soldiers behind us. They are waiting there. But they do not let us write anything about it, we could not talk with their head, and they are forcing us.”

They were detained on December 31 and transferred to Kyiv Boryspil International Airport, where they are up to this day.**

They were under the supervision of the police but later on some Turkish Authorities also involved in the case. But it was not clear whether those Turkish officials members of the Turkish Embassy or Turkish Secret Service. They have return tickets to Erbil in transit through Dubai, but they were not allowed to board their plane. Moreover, the border service forced them to board an Istanbul flight.

Rebecca Harms, Human rights defender and Green Member of EUParliament 2004-2019, post a tweet and call the attention of the Ukrainian Authorities, some political figures, and some press member with it. And she also reminds us of the positive acts of Ukraine Prime minister in the field of human rights with the following sentences “I remember well that President Zelensky once personally invited people who suffer from political persecution and he promised asylum and even passports”

 

 

* Two Turkish teachers are on the verge of being forcibly deported to Turkey

** Ukrayna, iki öğretmeni Türkiye’ye sınır dışı etmeye çalışıyor