(Anadolu) Parents and students of a Turkish minority school in Greece on Monday protested a move splitting up the school day into two shifts due to inadequate classroom space.
Some 2,000 protesters, according to local media, at the Xanthi (Iskece) Muzaffer Salihoglu Secondary-High School also included lawmakers, religious leaders, and mayors.
Xanthi is in Western Thrace, a region of Greece home to a Turkish-Muslim minority numbering around 150,000. The minority also has Turkish-Greek bilingual minority schools.
The protesters held posters in Turkish and Greek saying “We want a school not a prison,” “Emergency solution for the building problem,” and “740 lives are equal to how many square meters?”
