The boycott initiated by the Movement Kurdish Language and Education (TZP-Kurdi) after the constitutional referendum has evoked a lot of interest not only in Turkey and Kurdistan but also at international level. {divide}
Following the high percentage of boycott during the constitutional referendum on September 12, first of all in the Kurdish provinces, the TZP-Kurdi said "now it is time to boycott the schools" and announced that they will boycott schools during the first week of the school year 2010-2011. The campaign initiated with the slogan "we want education in mother tongue" received a lot of support within a short time. Many political parties and organisations like BDP , EHP , SDP , ESP , Socialist Youth Movement, Partizan y SGD supported the school boycott, which has a great impact first of all in the Kurdish provinces.
In many Kurdish cities like in Amed, Hakkari, Sirnak y Mardin the schools remained empty and the students of the Dicle University gathered in the campus in order to express their support of the boycott. The Turkish state did not stand the growing support of the campaign which started on September 20 and continues until September 25 and is on one hand concentrating police in front of the schools and on the other hand blacklisting the names of the pupils participating in the boycott by the school authorities. At the same time, the prosecutor of the republic of Diyarbakir is preparing to start investigations against the TZP-Kurdi and some other organisations supporting the boycott.
The representatives of TZP-Kurdi stated that the Turkish state did not take into consideration all the calls and actions carried out already for education in mother tongue and wants to assimilate the Kurds. They underlined that by boycotting the schools they want to make their voice heard again.
Resulting from the great impact the campaign of TZP-Kurdi reached, Alevi organisations started discussions about boycotting the obligatory classes of religion in these days. They announced that Alevi organisations and democratic mass organisations will meet to discuss this issue.