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(Egitim-Sen).
Of the 18mn students registered in compulsory education, only 12.8mn actively used the EBA (Education Information Network). In the early months of the pandemic last year, the number of children deprived of education was about six million.
44% of the teachers said the attendance rate in their classes was below 20%.
According to the teachers, current problems in distance education included students unable to attend classes due to an inadequate internet connection and not having the necessary IT devices, and students lacking motivation to attend distance education.
2.3 Politics - shorts
40%—or 210,000 tonnes—of the UK's plastic waste exports were sent to Turkey in 2020, an increase by a factor of 18 since 2016.
Poland is to buy 24 armed drones from Turkey, Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said on May 22.
Turkey’s Karpowership is accused of corruption in South Africa. The company also shut down its electricity provision to Lebanon amid a dispute over an 18-month payment delay and a decision taken by a Lebanese prosecutor to seize its power-generating barges. In January, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted Saad Hariri, a former Oger Telecom chairman and Lebanon’s PM-designate, in Istanbul.
Turk Telekom, 55% of which was sold to Oger Telecom in 2005 in a privatisation deal, was behind the biggest loan default in Turkish history.
Istanbul-listed Enka (ENKAI) remains under fire in Georgia: “We have a well-established position - Enka [the investor] should leave the Rioni Valley and all the contracts signed since 2015 should be terminated.”
Tajikistan’s Dushanbe City Court on April 20 sentenced nine people to prison sentences for smuggling large amounts of gold and cash from the Tajik capital Dushanbe to Dubai and Istanbul.
Russian troops have set up at two new sites in the south of Armenia near
Azerbaijan’s border and not far from Iran as an "additional security guarantee" following last year's conflict between the South Caucasus neighbours over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, Russian news agencies reported on May 3, quoting Armenia's acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinian.
Azerbaijani armed forces crossed the state border of the Republic of Armenia and advanced more than three kilometres into southern Armenian territory before trying to surround the remote Sev Lich lake, Armenia’s acting prime minister Nikol Pashinian said on May 12.
Two Syrians were convicted in Armenia for fighting as mercenaries on Azerbaijan’s side during last year’s Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Turkey recruited hundreds of mercenaries from Syria and deployed them to Azerbaijan to fight in the war that broke out at the end of last September. However, both Azerbaijan and Turkey continue to deny it.
Turkey has also sent Syrian mercenaries to fight in the Libyan conflict.
The Saeima, the Latvian legislature, on May 6 passed a declaration on the Armenian genocide committed under the Ottoman Empire during World War
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