The Ministry of Human Capacities would like to reiterate that the Government rejects and condemns unlawful segregation, which is banned by both the Constitution and other national laws.

Both the Government and Ministry officials are committed to the development of a quality education system that creates opportunities, and which plays a key role in facilitating the inclusion of disadvantaged children.

It is our firm belief that both statements demanding aggressive integration and which are designed to undermine schools that create real opportunities, and the statements made by the Chairman of Parliament’s Culture and Education Committee, which wish to solve the problem while violating the human dignity of others, create social and ethnic tensions and provide only damaging and incorrect solutions to an existing problem. The Government supports schools, teaching methods and measures that facilitate the inclusion, integrated learning and future coexistence of these disadvantaged children.

It should also be noted that the child protection system currently provides a highly regulated opportunity to remove and protect children who live in circumstances that endanger their development, just as opportunities regulated by law exist within the Act on Public Education to handle children who disturb their fellow students in class. The Ministry expects school managers to apply these regulations in a strict and consistent manner in all cases.

(Ministry of Human Capacities)