No lesson is being provided for thirteen students who chose Kurdish as elective course at the Yavuz Selim Secondary School at TOKİ (Housing Development Administration of Turkey) houses in İzmir's Uludere district.

The school has opened a class for the thirteen students who have been taught Kurdish by a volunteer teacher for some time.

In response to the students' demands to have a permanent teacher for Kurdish lessons, İzmir Provincial Directorate for National Education  said that there were no certificated teachers available.

The parents of the students react to the denial of Kurdish lessons to their children and complained that the certificated teachers of Kurdî-Der could take the class but were denied permission to do so because the state doesn't consider  Kurdî-Der to be an official institution.

“Our children chose Kurdish as an elective course but they have once again faced an obstacle of the state”, parents say.