At the program on Turkish TV channel TV8 Republican People’s Party Member Ensar Öğüt, who was program’s guest, admitted that he had a deep respect for Gulen-inspired schools. He told that during his visit to Russia he visited Russian-Turkish schools and was very affected by children speaking Turkish language and singing Turkey’s national march. Read rest of the story
Usama Mahmoud Hawar, a student at a Turkish school in Pakistan, has become the world champion in mathematics in an exam commissioned by the British Council’s Cambridge University, the Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.
Hawar, one of 12 million students from 200 countries to participate in the exam, was a final-year student at Lahore High School for Boys, one of the Turkish schools operating in Pakistan. The math world champion received a great deal of attention from the Pakistani media, which congratulated the successful students, teachers and schools of the exam. Read rest of the story
The Somali Education Minister expressed his happiness at the opening of the first Turkish high school in Somalia. “It has been wonderful — the students and parents are very happy to have access to quality education,” Somali Education Minister Ahmet Aidid Ibrahim shared in an exclusive interview with Today’s Zaman.
Somali students filled the classrooms of the famine-stricken country’s first Turkish high school, which the Turkish charity the Nile Organization established in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Ibrahim noted that “cities other than Mogadishu are also seeking to have similar Turkish schools.” Read rest of the story
Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmet Davutoglu, has paid a goodwill visit to Nepal and met with the President. The visit was historic because Davutoglu was the first Foreign Minister of Turkey to visit the country. But the minister’s surprise during his visit to the Turkish School in Kathmandu was bigger news. “My first visit to Nepal was in 1993. If someone had told me that a Turkish school would be opened in Kathmandu, the students in that school would learn to speak Turkish and would sing Turkish songs, I would think that it would be only a dream.” said Davutoglu. Turkish school in Kathmandu has been operating since 2002. That means Turkish volunteers who were inpired by Fethullah Gulen‘s ideals have arrived to Nepal almost 10 years ago to educate the youth of the country. They’ve started the school ten years before the first-in-history diplomatic visit of a Turkish Foreign Minister to Nepal. Experts say, 21st century will be the century of a thousand different things.. Internet, neuroscience, etc. What i believe is that, it will be the century of civil society activism. As Davutoglu stated: “Devoted Turkish teachers realized that dream and I’d like to thank to all of the teachers.” We all thank those, who sacrifice their time and energy in a country located thousands of miles to their homeland for a better and more peaceful world. Read rest of the story
As almost all Sudan-related articles in the conventional media are foreign policy based and plagued by reasonable human rights concerns, it was quite interesting for me to come across to a piece expressing the achievements of the civil society in the African country. According to the article, relatively new Turkish school in Khartum, founded by those who are inspired by M. Fethullah Gulen’s ideas, is ranked 4th among other 800 private schools in town and very well endorsed by the society. The total number of the private schools in only one city of the country, itself, is pretty surprising but it’s not the main theme of this piece. In addition, Abdullah Bozkurt, Today’s Zaman columnist and the author of this article, tells some success stories about other Turkish initiatives like Kimse Yok Mu and the Red Crescent. “One businessman was telling me how he dodged a traffic ticket when police found out that he was Turkish, and others were recalling different tales, all showing the warmth of the Sudanese people for Turkish expats living and working here” stated Bozkurt. Read rest of the story
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