Türk Eğitim Sen

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Türk Eğitim Sen (Union of Turkish Educators) is a trade union of teachers and other education workers in Turkey (Turkish: Eğitim ve Bilim Emekçileri Sendikası). It was founded on January 23, 1995. It is a member of KESK (Confederation of Public Workers' Unionsof Turkey), Education International the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.^[1][2]

[edit] Ban attempt

In 2004 an attempt was initiated to shut down the organization by Attorney General of Ankara 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 the Constitution 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 the European Union.^[1]

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.^[3]

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[edit] 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