region. The teachers for the Turkish Curriculum are trained in the Special Pedagogical Academy of Thessaloniki, which was established during the junta regime in Greece, and which is the unique teacher training school in the world, in which the means of instruction is Greek and the graduates of this Academy are appointed to teach Turkish to the minority children. Also, this is the only category of teachers in Greece that does not follow a university level of four-year education. Ms Chairperson, Distinguished Delagates, We call upon the Greek State  to ensure the equal opportunity for the instruction in mother tongue and the state language and to improve the quality of the education in minority schools and to remove biased items from the textbooks.  to take immediate steps to ensure that the rights to education for the ethnic minorities are guaranteed so that children in Western Thrace have a bilingual preschool education. Remembering that the ethnic Turkish minority has the right to take education in its native language according to the Treaty of Lausanne,  to abolish the discriminatory clauses of the new Preschool law that anticipates the Greek language is a must in preschool education. Thank you for your attention. Pervin Chairoula