{"id":68322,"date":"2013-03-20T16:51:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T14:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=68322"},"modified":"2014-01-08T01:54:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T23:54:03","slug":"french-language-teachers-in-istanbul-go-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/03\/20\/french-language-teachers-in-istanbul-go-on-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"French Language Teachers in Istanbul Go On Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Istanbul’s French language teachers went on a one-day strike today after MICEL management introduced a new contract that ended most teachers’ working permits by the end of 2013.<\/p>\n

Beyza KURAL beyza@bianet.org<\/p>\n

\u0130stanbul – BIA News Desk 19 March 2013, Tuesday<\/p>\n

Istanbul’s French language teachers from Galatasaray and Marmara Universities went on a one-day strike today after MICEL, Education and Language Cooperation Mission,\u00a0introduced a new contract that ended\u00a0most\u00a0teachers’\u00a0working permits by the end of 2013.<\/p>\n

There are currently 56 instructors contracted under MICEL in Turkey. Striker teachers demand the cancellation of new contract in order to continue working.<\/p>\n

In 2009, the French government introduced a new contract for its teachers working under MICEL that restricted their working permits to 4 years.<\/p>\n

This morning, roughly 35 teachers assembled at French Consulate in Istanbul, where they were received by the consul. The consulate, however, did not allow the press to cover the talks.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the consulate said they will forward teachers’ demands to French Embassy in Ankara and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n

E\u011fitim-Sen and its university representatives released a statement supporting the strike.<\/p>\n

“This new contract creates challenges for teachers to adapt to the education system in Turkey,”\u00a0Levent Y\u00fcksel, a MICEL contracted teacher, said. “It also makes impossible for teachers to adapt to Turkey. The adaptation period takes averagely 3 years. This way, teachers lose their jobs almost right after their adaptation period. There is no way that a teacher can efficiently work under these conditions.”<\/p>\n

Other teachers also added that more teachers will lose their jobs by the time the new contract will effectuate in the years to come.\u00a0(BK\/HK\/BM)<\/p>\n

via French Language Teachers in Istanbul Go On Strike – Bianet \/ English – Bianet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Istanbul’s French language teachers went on a one-day strike today after MICEL management introduced a new contract that ended most teachers’ working permits by the end of 2013. Beyza KURAL beyza@bianet.org \u0130stanbul – BIA News Desk 19 March 2013, Tuesday Istanbul’s French language teachers from Galatasaray and Marmara Universities went on a one-day strike today […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":68323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[7888],"class_list":["post-68322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-foreigners-in-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}