
An estimated 2,000 Turkish Cypriots gathered outside the north’s ‘parliament’ on Monday evening for the first of the planned nightly lighting of fires to protest against the ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs by children at public schools.
The protest began with speeches from trade union leaders and political figures, with Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ trade union (Ktoeos) leader Selma Eylem first to speak.
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