Turkey’s National Education Ministry adopted a decision, whereby the children of Armenians, Greeks and Jews, who live in Turkey but do not have Turkish citizenship, will now be able to officially attend the country’s national minority schools.    

The aforesaid decision states that these children will be lawfully registered at these schools, and they will receive diplomas upon graduation, Internethaber of Turkey informs.  

Archbishop Aram Ateshyan, the Armenian Deputy Patriarch of Constantinople, welcomed this decision. “We were exerting efforts toward resolving this problem. We are very for this decision,” he noted.                 

The children of parents from Armenia, who are illegally living in Turkey, were deprived of the opportunity to receive education. Only last year, the Turkish government had allowed these children to attend Istanbul’s Armenian schools as listeners, but without registration and receiving diplomas.