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A family in Turkey, which had returned to their Armenian roots and wished to enroll their child in an Armenian school in Istanbul, recently filed a respective petition with the court.   

In turn, the Istanbul Provincial Hall sent a ridiculous defense statement to the court.  

In the statement, Istanbul Provincial Hall justified why it had not permitted the child to attend an Armenian school, Radikal daily of Turkey reports.

The statement noted that solely national minorities can be enrolled in national minority schools in Turkey, there is no information on the Armenian roots of the plaintiff, whereas the Armenian church paper, according to which the child is Armenian, is not enough.    

The statement also noted that the Interior Ministry special code for the Armenians was not applied for the given family, and, according to Istanbul Provincial Hall, not everyone who wants can become Armenian.   

To note, however, the court did not take the given Istanbul Provincial Hall statement into consideration and instructed the provincial hall to allow the child to attend an Armenian school. The court stressed that the use of ethnic codes to determine the ethnic identity of a person runs contrary to human rights.

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