Northern Kurdistan-Agri: According to the report from DIHA a 10-year old Kurdish child Onur Tekin was punished and fined for speaking Kurdish his mother tongue in his class in the town Pantos in the province of Agiri.
His teacher fined the child with 1 Turkish lira, which is equivalent to 50 cent. “I spoke Kurdish with my friends during class, and we all got a fine of 1 Turkish lira, my friends paid, but I didn’t. First I was humiliated, than I got beaten,” said the Kurdish child who refuses to go to school.
The teacher allegedly said that all the Kurds are shepherds. “Is the teacher coming here to teach or to conduct politics,” the child told DIHA.