Schools of ‘Hizmet’ are building the bridges of peace
The columnist of Zaman paper wrote an interesting article about Gulen-inspired schools and universities in Iraq. He provided very detailed information about these schools: how they operate, what their educational systems are, what local Iraqis think about them and how they affect Turkish-Iraqi relationships. 17 of Iraq’s total 25 Turkish schools are located in Kurdistan region.
These schools not only help to improve Turkish relationships with Kurdish people, they also positively affect the relationships between Turkey and Iraq in general.The reason of that is not just in the outstanding quality of education provided by Gulen-inspired schools, but also in the fact that schools try to embed values such as friendship, tolerance, understanding, cooperation and good morals into the minds of young students. The new, peace and dialogue oriented generation is growing in Gulen-inspired schools…
