The children of Istanbul’s ‘illegal’ Armenians; lost in the educational shuffle up until now by Alin Ozinian*

21/9/2011 News that minority schools in Turkey will be able to enroll Armenian children currently residing “unofficially” in Turkey with their parents who have come to find employment, has made these youngsters and their families very happy. At the same time this has reminded people of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s comments last year concerning unofficial Armenian residents when he said: “There are 170,000 Armenians in our country; 70,000 are our citizens