eNDNOTeSAslan Amani, “Turkey’s Growing Constitutional Conundrum,” Open Democracy,22 March 2013; and “Conspiracy convictions deepen Turkey’s divide,” Al Jazeera,10 August 2013.1657 Noah Blaser, “The Enduring Frustration of Turkey’s Kurds,” Foreign Policy, 4October 2013.1658 “Turkey’s Erdogan announces Kurdish reforms,” BBC News, 30 September2013.1659 Humeyra Pamuk, “UPDATE 1-Turkey lifts generations-old ban on Islamic headscarf,” Reuters, 8 October 2013; and Kaya Genc, “Good riddance, Turkish schooloath – but reforms don’t go far enough,” The Guardian, 1 October 2013.1660 Humeyra Pamuk, “UPDATE 1-Turkey lifts generations-old ban on Islamic headscarf,” Reuters, 8 October 2013; and John Feffer, “Standing Up in Turkey,”Huffington Post (Blog), 7 October 2013.1661 UNESCO Institute for Statistics, “Education (all levels) Profile - Turkey,” UISStatistics in Brief (2011).1662 Piotr Zalewski, “A Turkish War of Religion: Kurdish Activists Sense aConspiracy,” Time, 4 June 2012; “Masked protesters attack kindergarten inTurkey’s southeast,” Hurriyet Daily News, 2 November 2012; “Alleged PKKmembers attack schools in Turkey,” Euro News, 23 October 2012; “Unknownattacks school in Turkey,” CNN Turk, 4 May 2010; “Unknown attacks school inTurkey with Molotov cocktail,” CNN Turk, 21 September 2010; and AssociatedPress in Ankara, “Three killed as explosion outside school rocks Turkish capitalAnkara,” The Guardian, 20 September 2011.1663 “A Turkish War of Religion: Kurdish Activists Sense a Conspiracy,” Time, 4June 2012; Selcan Hacaoglu, “Suspected PKK militants injure student, teachersin school raid,” Bloomberg News, 9 October 2012; “PKK attack on high schoolleaves 3 injured in Turkey,” Press TV, 10 October 2012; “Masked protestersattack kindergarten in Turkey’s southeast,” Hurriyet Daily News, 2 November2012; “Unknown attacks school in Turkey,” CNN Turk, 4 May 2010; “Unknownattacks school in Turkey with Molotov cocktail,” CNN Turk, 21 September 2010;and “Alleged PKK members attack schools in Turkey,” Euro News, 23 October2012.1664 “Turkey’s PKK school attack leaves 3 injured,” Xinhua, 9 October 2012.1665 “Alleged PKK Members Attack School in Turkey,” Euro News, 23 October2012.1666 “Masked Protesters Attack Kindergarten in Turkey’s Southeast,” HurriyetDaily News, 2 November 2012; and “PKK Supporters Attack Kindergarten withMolotovs in Sirnak,” Today’s Zaman, 2 November 2012.1667 Haroon Siddique, “Turkish car bomb blast kills three outside secondaryschool,” The Guardian, 20 September 2011.1668 Dogan News Agency, “Soldier, policeman killed, teachers kidnapped in waveof PKK attacks,” Hurriyet Daily News, 23 September 2012; “School teacherskidnapped by PKK terrorists,” Turkish Weekly, 28 September 2011; Xiong Tong,“PKK Rebels Kidnap Another Three Teachers in SE Turkey,” Xinhuanet News, 28September 2011; “Educators Protest PKK for Kidnapped Teachers,” Hurriyet DailyNews, 29 September 2011; “Four people kidnapped by PKK in southeasternTurkey,” Hurriyet Daily News, 16 October 2012; Dogan News Agency, “PKKkidnaps, releases six teachers,” Hurriyet Daily News, 17 October 2012; “PKKkidnap 3 teachers, village guard in southeast Turkey,” Shafaqna, 17 October2012; “Teachers abducted by PKK in Iğdır say determined to stay,” Today’sZaman, 23 October 2012; “Terrorists unsuccessful in bid to kidnap youngteachers in Igdir,” 23 October 2012; “Alleged PKK members attack schools inTurkey,” Euro News, 23 October 2012; “Two killed, teachers abducted in easternTurkey,” Kurd Press International News Agency, 31 October 2012; Dogan NewsAgency, “Three teachers kidnapped by PKK in southeastern Turkey,” Xinhua.net,10 November 2012; and Today’s Zaman, quoted in: “PKK militants freekidnapped teachers in Turkey,” Xinhua.net, 12 November 2012.1669 “Educators Protest PKK for Kidnapped Teachers,” Hurriyet Daily News, 29September 2011.1670 Dogan News Agency, “PKK kidnaps, releases six teachers,” Hurriyet DailyNews,17 October 2012.1671 “PKK Supporters Attempt to Torch Teachers’ Housing in SE Turkey,” HurriyetDaily News, 9 December 2011.1672 Education International, “Turkey: EI concerned abut the fate of 31 publicsector trade unionists on trial today,” 2 March 2010; and Letter from theInternational Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to the Prime Minister, “Massiveraids against trade union offices, detention of 71 union members and leaders,”25 June 2012.1673 Education International, “Turkey: EI concerned abut the fate of 31 publicsector trade unionists on trial today,” 2 March 2010.1674 Letter from ITUC to the Prime Minister, “Massive raids against trade unionoffices, detention of 71 union members and leaders,” 25 June 2012, 2.1675 Thomas Seibert, “Attacks on Students Show Turkish Police Still UseViolence,” The National, 10 December 2010.1676 Carol Corillon, Peter Diam, and Hans-Peter Zenner, Scientists, Engineers andDoctors in Turkey: a Human Rights Mission – Prepublication Copy (InternationalHuman Rights Network of Academics and Scholarly Societies, accessed August2013), 14-15.1677 Carol Corillon, Peter Diam, and Hans-Peter Zenner, Scientists, Engineers andDoctors in Turkey: a Human Rights Mission – Prepublication Copy (InternationalHuman Rights Network of Academics and Scholarly Societies, accessed August2013), 16; and Alison Abbott, “Turkey cracks down on academic freedom,”Nature, 3 July 2012.1678 Alison Abbott, “Secularist Academic Jailed in Turkey,” Nature, 26 June 2012;“Glimmer of hope after stunning verdict in Turkish trial,” Science Insider, 8 June2013; Carol Corillon, Peter Diam, and Hans-Peter Zenner, Scientists, Engineersand Doctors in Turkey: a Human Rights Mission – Prepublication Copy(International Human Rights Network of Academics and Scholarly Societies,accessed August 2013), 48.1679 Committee of Concerned Scientists, “Kemal Guruz releaed from prison,” 13September 2013.1680 “3 Turkish students injured in bomb blast,” Xinhua, 2 January 2013; and“Three students injured in high school blast in south eastern Turkey,” IPP, 4January 2013.1681 “Police intervene against fresh protest in Ankara’s ODTU campus,” HurriyetDaily News, 19 September 2013; and “Turkey police fire tear gas at studentdemo,” AFP, 20 October 2013.1682 “Scientists Should Push for Fair Treatment of Turkish Academics Arrested onLittle Evidence,” Nature, 23 February 2011; International Federation for HumanRights (FIDH), “TURKEY: Judicial Harassment of Pinar Selek Continues as IstanbulHeavy Penal Court Decides to Amend Her Acquittal and Request Her Conviction,”27 November 2012; World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), “Turkey:Continued Judicial Harassment Faced by Ms. Pinar Selek,” 21 January 2013; andPEN International, “News: Turkey – PEN International Concerned About PinarSelek Trial,” 12 December 2012.1683 Carol Corillon, Peter Diam, and Hans-Peter Zenner, Scientists, Engineers andDoctors in Turkey: a Human Rights Mission – Prepublication Copy (InternationalHuman Rights Network of Academics and Scholarly Societies, accessed August2013), 16-17.1684This profile covers attacks on education in 2009-2012, with an additionalsection on attacks in 2013.1685“Parliamentary Elections to be Postponed Two Years,” Yemen Post, 10 April2010.1686HRW, “Armed Conflict in Northern Yemen,” 28 August 2009; “Yemen ‘close tocrushing rebels’,” Al Jazeera, 14 October 2009; and Rule of Law in Armed252
EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK <strong>2014</strong>Conflicts Project, “Yemen – current conflicts,” Geneva Academy of InternationalHumanitarian and Human Rights Law.1687Ahmed Mohamoud Elmi, “YEMEN: Student protests gather strength afterdeaths,” University World News, 25 February 2011.1688“Clans and Tribes Forge New Yemen Unity,” New York Times, 16 June 2011.1689HRW, Classrooms in the Crosshairs: Military Use of Schools in Yemen’sCapital (New York: HRW, 11 September 2012), 9.1690Mohammed Mukhashaf, “Yemen army says seizes Qaeda bastion in majoradvance,” Reuters, 15 June 2012; and “Eleven Islamist militants killed insouthern Yemen,” Reuters, 20 June 2012.1691International Foundation for Electoral Systems, “Next steps in Yemen’s transition,”IFES Briefing Paper – March 2012.1692UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,A/64/742 S/2010/181, 13 April 2010, para 163; UNSC, Children and ArmedConflict: Report of the Secretary-General, A/65/820–S/2011/250, 23 April 2011,para 200; UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,A/66/782–S/2012/261, 26 April 2012, para 168; UNSC, Children and ArmedConflict: Report of the Secretary-General, A/67/845–S/2013/245, 15 May 2013,para 168. The total of 720 includes a figure of 311 incidents in 2010 calculatedfrom the figure given in the UNSC CAC report of 43% of Sa’ada schools attacked in2010 (of which there were 725). The other figures by year were 2009: 33, 2011:211; and 2012: 165.1693The figure 853 derives from 509 attacks in 2011 and 2012 reported by a UNrespondent plus 17 schools reported destroyed in 2009 and 16 reported used formilitary purposes in the UNSG CAC report in 2010; and an additional figure of 311schools (43% of Sa’ada schools in 2010 – of which there were 725) hit by mortarshells and crossfire in 2010 without specifying how many of those were targetedand how many were caught in crossfire, reported in the UNSG CAC report in 2011.1694Information provided by a UN respondent, 23 April 2013.1695UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), “Education (all levels) Profile - Yemen,”UIS Statistics in Brief (2011).1696Ibid.1697Muhammad Abdul Rahim Al-Shamiri, Director of Sa’ada Education Office,interviewed by Fuad Rajeh, 9 March 2013.1698“YEMEN: Saada Schools Reopen: 220 Destroyed, Damaged or Looted,” IRIN,28 February 2010. This figure was also confirmed during an interview by FuadRajeh for Education under Attack <strong>2014</strong> with the Committee on EducationEmergency at Ministry of Education, Yemen, 3 March 2013.1699Ahmed Al-Qurashi, CEO of Seyaj, interviewed by Fuad Rajeh, 4 March 2013.1700Information provided by a UN respondent, 23 April 2013.1701UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,A/65/820–S/2011/250, 23 April 2011, para 200.1702UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,A/66/782–S/2012/261, 26 April 2012, para 168.1703Ahmed Al-Qurashi, CEO of Seyaj Organization for Childhood Protection, interviewedby Fuad Rajeh, 4 March 2013.1704Information provided by Seyaj Organization for Childhood Protection to FuadRajeh, 4 March 2013.1705UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,A/66/782–S/2012/261, 26 April 2012, para 168.1706Information supplied by a UN respondent, 23 April 2013.1707UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,A/66/782–S/2012/261, 26 April 2012, para 168.1708Information supplied by a UN respondent, 23 April 2013. Separate specificfigures for the types of incidents were not provided.1709Information provided by a UN respondent, 23 April 2013.1710Ibid.1711Ibid.1712Ibid.1713Ibid.1714Ibid.1715Ibid.1716Ibid.1717Yahya Al-Yanai, Spokesman for Yemen Teachers’ Syndicate, interviewed byFuad Rajeh, 7 March 2013.1718Yemeni Teachers’ Syndicate officials, and former Head Fuad Dahaba, interviewedby Fuad Rajeh, March 2013.1719Yahya Al-Yanai, Spokesman for Yemen Teachers’ Syndicate, interviewed byFuad Rajeh, 7 March 2013; Ibrahim Thaiban, Head of Yemen Teachers’Syndicate’s Sa’ada branch, interviewed by Fuad Rajeh, 8 March 2013.1720Muhammad Abdul Rahim Al-Shamiri, Director of Sa’ada Education Office,interviewed by Fuad Rajeh, 9 March 2013.1721Ibid.1722“Houthi militias arrest 14 persons in Saada,” Al-Sawah.net, 1 December2012.1723Sixteen cases were reported in UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report ofthe Secretary-General, A/64/742 S/2010/181, 13 April 2010, para 163; and 36cases were reported in UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of theSecretary-General, A/67/845–S/2013/245, 15 May 2013, para 168.1724UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,A/64/742 S/2010/181, 13 April 2010, para 163.1725“Yemen: Rebel Occupation of Schools Threatens Northern Ceasefire,” IRINNews, 10 May 2010.1726UNSC, Children and Armed Conflict: Report of the Secretary-General,A/64/742 S/2010/181, 13 April 2010, para 163.1727“In Yemen, schools become hostages of rising crisis,” Thomson Reuters, 19October 2011.1728“UNICEF Yemen – Bi-Weekly Situation Report,” 1-15 November 2011.1729Information provided by Seyaj Organization for Childhood Protection to FuadRajeh, 4 March 2013.1730Information provided by a UN respondent, 23 April 2013.1731UNSC, Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict inYemen, S/2013/383, 28 June 2013, para 49.1732Ibid.1733HRW, Classrooms in the Crosshairs: Military Use of Schools in Yemen’sCapital (New York: HRW, 11 September 2012), 14, 17.1734HRW, Classrooms in the Crosshairs: Military Use of Schools in Yemen’sCapital (New York: HRW, 11 September 2012), 14, 17.1735“Houthi Militias Arrest 14 Persons in Saada,” Alsahwa-Yemen.net, 1December 2012.1736“Yemen: Rebel Occupation of Schools Threatens Northern Ceasefire,” IRINNews, 10 May 2010. For information on the roots of Shabab Al-Moumineem, see”Hothi Al-Shabab Al-Moum-en,” Globalsecurity.org.253
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