Hamzaoğulları, who belongs to the opposition party CTP, said in his statement to TV2020 television, “In some classes there are 14 children who do not know Turkish, and only nine who know it. There are at least three different languages among these 14 people. How can a teacher teach under these conditions?”
“There should be preparatory classes for these children. The Ministry of Education should have worked on this issue in time. They did nothing about it,” he said.
Trikomo has become the center of foreign investments in recent years, and high-rise buildings have begun to rise in the Long Beach and Bogazi regions on the coastline of the village.
Flats in the area are selling for over £200,000 (€230,421), with citizens from Russia, Ukraine, Iran and Israel increasingly investing in property.
Many third-country nationals who settle in the Trikomo region choose to send their children to local public schools.
However, teachers have long been warning that children are sent to school without knowing Turkish, and that teachers have to cope with a large number of children in their classes who cannot speak the language of instruction, since schools do not have the infrastructure and personnel to provide special education to those who do not speak Turkish.
Steps regarding the issue have begun to be taken by the ‘government’. Last weekend, ‘Prime Minister’ Ünal Üstel and ‘Minister of Education’ Nazım Çavuşoğlu visited Bosnia and Herzegovina to attend a conference on teaching Turkish to students whose native languages are different.
