* A primary school teacher in Turkey’s western province of Balikesir was arrested after harassing a 10-year-old student. The 51-year-old teacher – married with three kids – was suspended after the parents filed a complaint to the Directorate of National Education. He was then transferred to another district but called the young girl’s father and said he wanted to come to Baikesir to get her… claiming that he had dreams that they were married. The father invited him to come but also informed the police who arrested the teacher.

* A religion teacher in northern Turkey caused irritation after she told her 13-year-old female pupils that they deserved “rape” for not wearing a headscarf. “You don’t cover your head anyway, so raping you or doing evil to you is permissible (in Islam),” she said. The education director in Tokat said an official investigation had been launched and that the teacher had been transferred to another district.

* A shocking video has emerged from Ankara that shows a teacher grabbing a pupil by the head and banging him on the blackboard. “Didn’t I tell you to wipe the board? Why didn’t you do it,” he says before grabbing the student’s ear and banging his head on the board.