Interesting. Just this morning I was reading this: Little Saigon school to provide instruction in English and Vietnamese
Yazidi refugees wait for the arrival of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy Angelina Jolie at a Syrian and Iraqi refugee camp in the southern Turkish town of Midyat in Mardin province, Turkey, June 20, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Umit Bektas)
Yazidi students abandon Arabic script with eye toward Europe
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — In a tent city outside Diyarbakir, the largest city of Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, efforts are underway to provide an education to the children of Yazidi refugees from neighboring Iraq. In one novelty for Yazidi children, they are now learning the Latin script, as many Yazidis are reluctant to return home and hope to make it to Europe.
Summary⎙ Print Yazidi refugees in Turkey are struggling to restart their children’s education, and many are now learning the Latin alphabet with the hope of one day starting new lives in Europe.
Author Mahmut BozarslanPosted August 28, 2015
TranslatorSibel Utku Bila
The classes, led by Yazidi teachers, include also English, mathematics, Kurdish and other subjects. The makeshift school, assisted by local and foreign nongovernmental organizations, became operational earlier this year in a bid to jumpstart education services for Yazidi children, a year after the Islamic State’s bloody onslaught on Sinjar sparked their dramatic exodus.
The school program in the camp, which shelters about 4,000 refugees, started with classes teaching the Latin alphabet, a major novelty for Yazidi students, who had so far used the Arabic script. Then, classes in English as well as in math, Kurdish and social sciences followed, again using the Latin script. The Yazidis of Sinjar, a distinct community in the Kurdish fold, speak the Kurmanji dialect of theKurdish language, just like Turkey’s Kurds, who use the Latin script. Similar programs have been introduced in several other Yazidi refugee camps in Turkey’s southeast.
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Yazidi refugees wait for the arrival of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy Angelina Jolie at a Syrian and Iraqi refugee camp in the southern Turkish town of Midyat in Mardin province, Turkey, June 20, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Umit Bektas)
Yazidi students abandon Arabic script with eye toward Europe
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — In a tent city outside Diyarbakir, the largest city of Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, efforts are underway to provide an education to the children of Yazidi refugees from neighboring Iraq. In one novelty for Yazidi children, they are now learning the Latin script, as many Yazidis are reluctant to return home and hope to make it to Europe.
Summary⎙ Print Yazidi refugees in Turkey are struggling to restart their children’s education, and many are now learning the Latin alphabet with the hope of one day starting new lives in Europe.
Author Mahmut BozarslanPosted August 28, 2015
TranslatorSibel Utku Bila
The classes, led by Yazidi teachers, include also English, mathematics, Kurdish and other subjects. The makeshift school, assisted by local and foreign nongovernmental organizations, became operational earlier this year in a bid to jumpstart education services for Yazidi children, a year after the Islamic State’s bloody onslaught on Sinjar sparked their dramatic exodus.
The school program in the camp, which shelters about 4,000 refugees, started with classes teaching the Latin alphabet, a major novelty for Yazidi students, who had so far used the Arabic script. Then, classes in English as well as in math, Kurdish and social sciences followed, again using the Latin script. The Yazidis of Sinjar, a distinct community in the Kurdish fold, speak the Kurmanji dialect of theKurdish language, just like Turkey’s Kurds, who use the Latin script. Similar programs have been introduced in several other Yazidi refugee camps in Turkey’s southeast.
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Yazidi students abandon Arabic script with eye toward Europe - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
