Gökçeada’s Greek community established the İmroz Education and Culture Association on April 18 to open the high school on the island.
After remaining closed for 50 years, the Private Gökçeada Greek Primary School was reopened in 2013. Located in the island’s Zeytinli village, the school only had four students from the small minority population.
The school anticipated opening this year with eight students whose families, rooted in Gökçeada, were returning from Greece.
Laki Vingas, the elected representative of the Non-Muslim Foundations in Turkey and Council Member of the General Directorate of Foundations in Ankara, said the community needed the state’s support. He said they offered the use of a primary school in Zeytinliköy until the maintenance work at the school was completed, but the plan was not approved.
“We were told this issue would be solved with the omnibus bill, but this did not take place,” Vingas said. “The authorities demand that we wait for a year, but our eight students were ready to go to school.”
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gokceada-greek-high-school-will-not-open-in-2014-after-50-year-closure.aspx?pageID=238&nID=71650&NewsCatID=339
13/9/14
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Greek minority school on Gökçeada starts new term with only two students ...
ReplyDeleteThe new school year has opened with only two students at an elementary school for the Greek minority on the island of Gökçeada, which was reopened last year after 49 years of being closed.
The Hagia Todori Elementary School, which was first opened in 1951 but which closed in 1964, reopened after the Education Ministry accepted in 2013 the demand to open a school for the Greek minority on Gökçeada, an island off Turkey’s northwestern province of Çanakkale.
Four students, 6-year-old Musa Avcı, 7-year-old Dimitri Kalpas, 9-year-old Sofia Avcı and 11-year-old Kaan Kaleci, enrolled at the school last year. Kalpas returned to Greece with his family while Kaan Kaleci left to enroll in a secondary school in Istanbul, reducing the number of students to two this year.
Kaleci enrolled in Istanbul as the opening of a minority secondary school on Gökçeada has been delayed due to incomplete repair works.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/greek-minority-school-on-gokceada-starts-new-term-with-only-two-students-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=71743&NewsCatID=339
15/9/14