"TURKEY: THE COUNTRY’S BIGGEST RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT EDUCATES KURDS, AND NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY
3/03/09
There is a studious silence in the basement floor of the Rose Pink Women’s Education and Mutual Aid Association in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast.
In three classrooms, 70 12-year-old girls are hard at work studying for exams that will decide their secondary school future. Wearing headscarves that bar them from working in Turkish state schools, volunteer teachers advise struggling students. In the library across the corridor, Ministry of Education-required course books rub shoulders with encyclopedias and a copy of Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, in English."
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