
Teachers at Trikomo’s Bekirpasha high school went on strike on Friday over “pressure” being put on them by the north’s ‘education ministry’ in the midst of the “headscarf crisis” which has been rumbling on for over a month after the ruling coalition twice legalised the wearing of hijabs by girls at public schools.
Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ trade union (Ktoeos) leader Selma Eylem told the Cyprus Mail that the