ABSTRACT
Teachers, Iike other ordinary public service personnei, hold the status of public servant, and according to the National Ci vii Service Law and Local Civil Service Law they are restricted in terms of political activity. Moreover, the Fundamental Law of Education proscribes all educational employees from participation in certain political activities. These laws emphasize the neutrality of education and attempt to maintain neutrality by restricting teachers from specific types of political activity. As we need hardly mention, children ofhigh school age and younger, because they are immature spiritually and physically, are restricted in economic capability and legal capacity . Thus, even in terms of political consciousness, they have still not developed sufficiently to be able to make accurate decisions and therefore can easily be influenced in one direction or another by their education. At the same time, one cannot for whatever reason permit a teacher, who occupies a position of leadership and inspiration vis-a-vis these students, to advocate the special political philosophy which he or she believes in or to attack an opposing view. The various problems conceming the political neutrality ofteachers must be addressed from this fundamental principle.
