A survey circulated by a far-right-linked student group has sparked outrage, with educators, historians and veterans warning that profiling teachers for their political views echoes fascist-era practices. FEDERICA ADRIANI reports
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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
In reopening relations with China, the PM showed an uncharacteristic grasp of power, proportion and Britain’s diminished place in the world – a lesson many in Westminster still refuse to learn, says ANDREW MURRAY
Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports
The British Prime Minister’s Beijing visit marked the end of a long diplomatic hiatus and produced tangible, if limited, economic results, says KEITH BENNETT
Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY
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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