23.04.2025 11:00
The incident of a female student being denied entry to school with her headscarf at İrsen Küçük Secondary School in Nicosia has come to the agenda of the AK Party's Central Decision and Executive Board. President Erdoğan reacted to the incident, stating, "This is an act of insolence. We will make a visit to the TRNC in the coming days. We will deliver the necessary messages there. If you don't tighten the reins, they don't know their limits."
President Erdoğan reacted strongly to the protests against the lifting of the headscarf ban in high schools in the TRNC and the exclusion of a middle school student from school due to her headscarf.
HEADSCARF DEBATE IN TRNC AT THE FOREFRONT OF AGENDA
Following the incident where a girl student was not allowed to enter İrsen Küçük Middle School in Nicosia due to her headscarf and was suspended from school, the Ministry of National Education made changes to the regulations, allowing students to attend classes with "caps and bandanas." This decision came after the main opposition's request and the protests organized by the Turkish Cypriot Teachers' Union (KTÖS), which advocates against entering schools with headscarves. As a result, the Prime Ministry announced that it would withdraw the regulatory decision, thus leaving the decision of whether students can enter middle schools with headscarves entirely to the schools' discretion.
DISCUSSION AT AK PARTY MKYK
The prevention of a headscarf-wearing student from entering school in the TRNC and the subsequent amendment of regulations by the Council of Ministers to allow students to wear headscarves in high schools based on their beliefs, as well as the initiation of protests by some unions against this decision, were discussed at the AK Party MKYK.
"THEY DON'T KNOW THEIR LIMITS"
According to a report in the Türkiye newspaper, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted to the incident, stating, "This is insolence. We will make a visit to the TRNC in the coming days. We will deliver the necessary messages there. If you can't handle it, they don't know their limits," he said.