{"id":141174,"date":"2026-09-07T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=141174"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:18:00","slug":"kurdish-students-continue-protests-over-syria-education-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/141174\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish students continue protests over Syria education decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>Kurdish students continued protests for a second consecutive day across several cities in northeastern Syria on Monday, demanding the adoption of Kurdish as a language of instruction alongside Arabic in public schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The demonstrations coincided with the start of the 2026-2027 academic year, which began across Syria on Sunday, amid growing opposition to a recent decision by the Syrian Ministry of Education limiting Kurdish-language instruction to three classes per week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Qamishli, students staged protests at several schools and carried banners reading, \u201cLet the Kurdish language live forever,\u201d \u201cWe only want our right,\u201d and \u201cOur language is not an additional subject.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The students rejected treating Kurdish as a supplementary subject, saying education in their mother tongue is a fundamental right and calling for Kurdish to be recognized as a core language in the public education system alongside Arabic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protests were also reported in Tal Tamr town, where students at Adnan al-Maliki School staged a sit-in and chanted slogans against limiting Kurdish instruction to three weekly lessons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students said that their demand goes beyond increasing the number of Kurdish-language classes, stressing that they want broader guarantees for education in their mother tongue and the preservation of Kurdish linguistic and cultural identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Chel Agha (al-Jawadiya), students at the Gharbi Jahwa village school in the Alyan area also organized a protest inside their schoolyard, calling for curricula to be taught in Kurdish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The protests follow a decision issued by Syria\u2019s Education Ministry on Aug. 27 regulating Kurdish-language education during what Damascus described as a transitional academic year. 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