- Türk Eğitim Sen
Türk Eğitim Sen (Union of Turkish Educators) is a
trade union ofteacher s and other education workers inTurkey ( _tr. Eğitim ve Bilim Emekçileri Sendikası). It was founded onJanuary 23 1995 . It is a member ofKESK (Confederation of Public Workers' Unions of Turkey),Education International theInternational Confederation of Free Trade Unions . [ [http://www.egitimsen.org.tr/ Eğitim Sen website] ]Ban attempts
2004
In 2004 an attempt was initiated to shut down the organization by
Attorney General ofAnkara on the grounds that its statute contained the statement "...the defence [of the right] of individuals to receive education in their mother tongue", which was claimed to be against the Article 42 of theConstitution of Turkey which says that "No other language than Turkish may be taught in educational and teaching facilities to Turkish citizens as their mother tongue". The closure was demanded because Eğitim Sen refused to remove the phrase in question from its statute during the series of reforms asociated with the aspiration of Turkey towards joining theEuropean Union . [http://www.nearinternational.org/alerts/turkey20050122 "Teachers Union Threatened With Closure Because of Controversial Laws"] ]After a long and controversial litigation Eğitim Sen was closed by the General Assembly of the Supreme Court of Appeal on
May 25 ,2005 . To avoid the closure, Eğitim Sen later revoket the cause in question from its statute. [ [http://www.nawandihalabja.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75&Itemid=25 "Amnesty Report on Turkey"] , aCHAK webpage]2008
In 2008 however, a complaint by
Adnan Oktar did lead to the banning of the organisation's website. This was a reaction to a press-release about Adnan Oktar’s "Atlas of Creation", which was sent to schools free of charge. [http://www.bianet.org/english/kategori/english/109951/creationist-adnan-oktar-manages-to-shut-down-another-internet-site]References
Further reading
*Serap Boz, "The Schol Teachers of Ankara" pp. 97-125 in: Erol Kahveci, Nadir Sugur, Theo Nichols (Eds) "Work and Occupation in Modern Turkey", 1996, ISBN 0720123194, contains, in part, a brief history of Turkish trade unions of teachers
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