Ninety percent of the children in the province of Van have taken part in the one-week school boycott for mother tongue education on the first day of the 2013-2014 education year on Monday, answering BDP and DTK's call for mass participation in the boycott.

The boycott in the city is mainly joined in the neighborhoods of Şabaniye, Karşıyaka, Yeni Mahalle, Xaçort and Yüniplik.

Plainclothes police officers have visited a number of schools across the city early in the morning and gathered information about the percentages of the participation in the boycott which has highly been performed at the M. Akif Ersoy High School in the container city and the Süphan Primary School where only 200 out of 1400 students have taken the classes today.