Salleh Saghar, head of the Turkish Education Foundation in Afghanistan, pledged that Ankara is ready to help Afghanistan’s education sector.
Officials of the Turkish foundation said that Turkey is committed to providing better services for Afghanistan’s education sector and will launch joint projects in the future with the aim of aiding the country’s growth.
“We might not be able to eliminate the problems of the (Ministry of Education), but as an international organization, we will be serving the people and the Afghan nation. With the experience we have in education, and the available resources in our hands, we will be serving you,” said Salleh Saghar, head of the Turkish Education Foundation in Afghanistan.
The head of the Turkish Foundation in Afghanistan said his country’s assistance in improving education in Afghanistan will increase.
“In the future, in cooperation with the Minister and their supporters, we will continue our training and support in the education sector,” he said.
The security forces surrounded the Afghan-Turk high school in Shah-e-Do Shamshira area in Kabul early on Friday morning at around 4 am local time, sources said.
The area was cordoned off by security forces and no one, including reporters, was allowed to get closer to the school.
The students’ parents said that the security forces used tear gas to disperse the families of the students who gathered in the area to protest the raid by the forces.
They also claimed that some students were beaten by the security forces.
Back in December 2017, Afghan security forces raided an Afghan-Turk female high school in Taimani area in Kabul’s PD4 and surrounded the school for at least three hours. The teachers were arrested at that time.
The Turkish government had asked the Afghan government to hand over these individuals to Turkey. But there is no extradition agreement between the two countries.
At least 600 boys and girls are enrolled in Afghan-Turk schools in Mazar-e-Sharif city. The management of the schools are supposed to be handed over from Cag Educational Foundation to the Turkish government, but the students and teachers of the schools are resisting against the decision.
Meanwhile, the Acting Minister of Education of Afghanistan welcomed Turkey’s support for the education sector and said that in the last four decades the education sector has suffered the most.
“There are a lot of rules on paper about education, but in terms of quality it needs a lot of strengthening and help to enable Afghanistan education to stand on its own feet,” said Noorullah Munir, Acting Minister of Education.
“We say to them: you are not guests here, this is your house and you should accept it as your own house,” said Khairullah Khairkhwa, Acting Minister of Information and Culture.
The Turkish Education Foundation has established about 50 schools in eight provinces of Afghanistan, where students are taught by Turkish and Afghan teachers.—Tolonews
