On behalf of Eğitim Sen, representing 127.000 education and science workers in Turkey, we would like to mention that the education right for all children is the basic human right. In our geography war is the main point to block exercising equal, democratic, secular, qualified and mother-language based education.
In our country, internal war has lasted 30 years. Now, the war in Syria, Kobane and Sinjar is so similar to internal war in our country. Since we all know that we are all influencing from the pains caused by the war, there is no need for hesitation to say that world is not the audience to wars. All people who are living in different parts of world are not neutral about wars. Everybody is in favor or against wars. We are opposite side of the war. We support justice and future. But the war in our geography still continues. Children are the innocent victims of it. The war which threatens the future of Arab, Turk, Kurdish, Yezidi, Assyrian and Christian children has not yet ended. Ongoing war in Syria and Iraq is against our hopes, equality ideals and freedoms of whole society in our region. The loser of this war is all humanity but there is no winner. According to us, it is impossible to win a war. If we want to stop the war in which the most brutal methods like massacres and genocides are used, people should freely determine their own future. Whenever we live, we have something to do for democracy and freedoms. It can be small or more. But we have to do something. We are making a fight for public, universal, mother language based and quality education. It is our responsibility to protect education right of all children.
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