Teachers walk out of every public school in north as protests continue

Teachers walked out of every public school in the north on Wednesday as protests continue against the ruling coalition’s handling of education in light of a retracted attempt to legalise the wearing of hijabs by schoolchildren last month.

The protest was led by the Irsen Kucuk middle school in northern Nicosia, where Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ union (Ktoeos) leader Selma Eylem read out a prepared statement in which she