Medical students will apply to the court, if the Ministry of Defense does not make a decision according to the law.
Students have been protesting for two months because they are unable to continue their education in the residency. With the abolition of the deferment in December 2017, they will no longer need to be drafted into the army as ordinary. Students think that the law is violated because they should be drafted as lieutenants.
“It is a duty for us to serve as a lieutenant,” says Vardan Shahinyan and adds that it is also their right because the Defense Ministry has granted that.
The Defense Ministry offers a one-year military internship option where they will be ordinary soldiers, and then a year after, the title of lieutenant will be given to them.
Instead, students advise to finish the residency and go to army as lieutenants.