{"id":6419,"date":"2022-12-09T21:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penna.cydialogue.org\/?p=6419"},"modified":"2022-12-16T10:21:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T07:21:24","slug":"teachers-prevented-from-going-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penna.cydialogue.org\/teachers-prevented-from-going-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"TEACHERS PREVENTED FROM GOING TO EUROPE"},"content":{"rendered":"
The \u201c<\/strong>fictitious<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong> administration in the northern part of the island wants Turkish Cypriots to turn their backs on the European Union. They cover every evil with the flag and hinder every good deed. They talk about beautifying the cage, rather than the sky.<\/strong><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n The European Parliament occasionally invites, youth, artists, politicians, and educators from both the north and the south of the island to Brussels and Strasbourg. The \u201cgovernment\u201d is preventing civil servants from accepting these invitations. ***<\/p>\n This is the third time I’ve heard this in just a few months. Could there be a shallower, more unprogressive and insensible understanding of education?<\/strong> They know no foreign contact except for \u201cnational<\/strong>\u201d or \u201creligious<\/strong>\u201d camps in Turkey. ***<\/p>\n Turkish Cypriots are members of the European Union. Be my guest, hold a referendum! ***<\/p>\n It’s always the same lie\u2026 The fact that the Green Line Regulation was prepared after the referendum is deliberately ignored. 623 million euros in assistance was provided from 2006 to 2021\u2026 Anyway\u2026. ***<\/p>\n The individual invitations made to our teachers by the European Union are extremely important and those who prevent this are the reactionaries. Source:\u00a0TEACHERS PREVENTED FROM GOING TO EUROPE\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
\nWhat kind of blindness is this?
\nWhat kind of insanity is this?<\/p>\n
\nOur people give presentations either in the parliament or the commission.
\nThey find the opportunity to have trainings, make observations and do research.
\nThey voice their views.
\nAs a result, they engage with Europe; this is a vision, this is to learn how to act, communicate, and gain experience\u2026<\/p>\n
\nTeachers are being prevented.
\nCivil servants are being obstructed.<\/p>\n
\nOur teachers are being invited by the European Union and the ministry says \u201cno\u201d, \u201cyou can\u2019t go.\u201d
\nHere you are! This is the real \u201cembargo<\/strong>!\u201d<\/p>\n
\nWe are talking of an approach that is not human rights, equality, democracy and universal values oriented, that prevents the individual development of educators, and chooses to imprison teachers through an oppressive approach rather than allow them to open up to the world.<\/p>\n
\nThey pulled out our students, our educators, and our people from the Imagine Project which received \u201c<\/strong>a Global Education<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong> award.
\nA blind mentality!<\/p>\n
\nAll \u201c<\/strong>TRNC<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong> citizens are dying to obtain European Union IDs and passports.
\nThe Turkish Cypriot community has voiced its desire for a future within the European Union numerous times.<\/p>\n
\nAsk this community if you dare whether they want European values or the AKP<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>s Turkey<\/strong>\u2026<\/strong>
\nWe are being unwillingly dragged towards a state of cults and congregations, and there is anger, reaction and outrage towards this.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u201c<\/strong>We said yes in the referendum and look what happened. The European Union did not keep its promise<\/strong>\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSo are the millions of Euros in financial assistance, provided for transportation and the environment, for infrastructure and rural development, for civil society and education, forgotten.<\/p>\n
\nA 30.7 million euro action plan was approved in December 2021\u2026
\nAgain in 2022, 33.4 million euros were put aside for Turkish Cypriots for various projects aimed at supporting economic development, peace and confidence-building measures\u2026
\nAnd to top it all, the European Union has not tampered with [party<\/em>] congresses, nor did it appoint the Foreign Minister, form the government, or force one to step down.<\/p>\n
\nThat\u2019s another issue…<\/p>\n
\nThose who are desperately supporting the annexation policies in the northern part of Cyprus should never forget that this community sees Europe as its model…
\nEurope\u2026<\/p>\n