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Teachers in Turkey are living in fear
CONRAD LANDIN talks to Ozgur Bozdgan, the international secretary of Turkish educators’ union Egitim-Sen, about how the 2018 state of emergency has had a chilling effect across the education sector
Ozgur Bozdgan, Egitim Sen international secretary with the union's president Feray Aytekin Aydogan at NASUWT conference in Belfast

ALL she did was pick up the phone to a TV call-in show.

But last month Ayse Celik was sent to jail to continue serving a 15-month sentence — which had been delayed because she was pregnant and then had a newborn baby.

Her child is currently staying with her mother while she serves her sentence. But the first time round, the schoolteacher was among 700 women in her country to serve their sentences accompanied by their children — in spite of this violating human rights legislation and the constitution. 

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