School. Within the framework of this system, where there is no similar practice in public schools, students, parents, and school boards objected to the practical issues in accessing the school and demanded a new school building to solve the existing issue. In 2019, following the letters sent to the official authorities remained unanswered, a protest march was organised in Xanthi with the participation of 2,000 people. In 2023, as the number of students in the school decreased, parents and student representatives of Xanthi Turkish Minority Secondary and High School demanded an end to double-shift schooling. The protest action launched against the imposition of double-shift schooling by the Directorate of Secondary Education of Xanthi at the school in the 2023-2024 school year lasted 11 days. The protest action, which continued with the slogan ‘‘No to Double-Shift Schooling’’, resulted in the decision of the Directorate of Secondary Education of Xanthi that all students would have their classes in the morning, and this time, overcrowding occurred in the classrooms due to the closure of three classrooms in the basement of the same school building. At this point, demands regarding the opening of three additional classrooms as an urgent solution, allowing the use of four pre-fabricated classrooms on the land 500 meters away, and allocating a new school building in the long term are left unanswered. In light of the following: - Article 4(4) of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, Articles 18 and 22 of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Articles 2(1), 13, 14 and 15 of the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Article 7 of the UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Articles 28 and 29 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; In light of its commitments and obligations towards the UN, as well as to the Council of Europe and the OSCE, Greece should execute the following: 1. The educational autonomy of the Turkish community in Western Thrace, which is included in within the framework of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, should be restored. Greece must ensure that everyone is effectively protected against all forms of discrimination and can fully enjoy their rights under the Treaty of Lausanne and other international human rights agreements. 2. Acknowledging that the Turkish community in Western Thrace has the right to pursue education in their mother tongue at all levels of education, including pre-school, it should allow the establishment of Turkish kindergartens within the Turkish school system that are completely private, and meet the demands in this direction. 3. It should stop closing Turkish primary schools within the context of unilateral decisions on the grounds of lack of sufficient pupils and leave the decision to the Turkish community itself in determining the steps to be taken for quality education. 4. Obstacles to the right to access quality education for the Turkish community in Western Thrace should be removed, and the persisting issues at the Xanthi Minority Secondary and High School should be resolved urgently in line with the demands of students, parents and school boards. 3