Today's breaking news from Turkey, Education

News Turkey » Education: Turkey: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/26/turkey-submission-un-committee-rights-child

Published on: Wednesday 26 April 2023

We write in advance of the 93rd session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (“the Committee”) and its review of Turkey. This submission includes information on government-endorsed online ...

News Turkey » Education: Turkey: Education Barriers for Asylum Seekers

News channel or source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/05/31/turkey-education-barriers-asylum-seekers

Published on: Tuesday 30 May 2017

(Brussels) – Many child asylum seekers in Turkey are not going to school because of arbitrary policies for asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch said today. The Turkish interior ministry should revise ...

News Turkey » Education: Education in Turkey in times of corona: A brief overview

News channel or source: https://bianet.org/haber/education-in-turkey-in-times-of-corona-a-brief-overview-246861

Published on: Tuesday 06 July 2021

Turkey’s Minister of Education Selçuk has announced that the Ministry is planning to reopen the schools in September. Here is a timeline of the education in Turkey during the pandemic and an overview ...

News Turkey » Education: Turkey's distance education during pandemic hasn't been 'perfect,' says minister

News channel or source: https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-s-distance-education-during-pandemic-hasn-t-been-perfect-says-minister-236878

Published on: Wednesday 30 December 2020

"When we look back, I can say that we're satisfied with most of the work," Ziya Selçuk has said while admitting that everything hasn't been perfect. While Turkey has one of the countries with the ...

News Turkey » Education: Education and the Politics of Cultural Survival for Uyghur Immigrants in Turkey

News channel or source: https://drexel.edu/soe/research/faculty-publications/Education-Politics-Cultural%20Survival-Uyghur-Immigrants-Turkey/

Published on: Tuesday 13 May 2025

This paper explores the challenges of language and cultural maintenance through education among one immigrant ethnic group, the Uyghurs within Turkey, where the Uyghur population has grown in recent ...

News Turkey » Education: Erdogan’s Assault on Education

News channel or source: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/turkey/2015-12-23/erdogans-assault-education

Published on: Tuesday 22 December 2015

In Turkey, where there has been a rise in Islamic religiosity, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, founder of the pro-Islamist Development and Justice Party (AKP), is converting some public schools into ...

News Turkey » Education: Turkey: Education Ministry's Battle of the Bulge

News channel or source: https://eurasianet.org/turkey-education-ministrys-battle-of-the-bulge

Published on: Tuesday 20 September 2011

One of the recently-stated goals of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which won its third term this summer, is to tackle the problem of childhood obesity in the country. Action has ...

News Turkey » Education: Education: Technology for Turkey

News channel or source: https://time.com/archive/6809292/education-technology-for-turkey/

Published on: Tuesday 03 March 2026

There was only a brief ceremony for the 30 students receiving their college degrees in a drab, grey building behind the Turkish Parliament in Ankara. Barely a handful of people were present. The ...

News Turkey » Education: Education: Turkey Talk

News channel or source: https://time.com/archive/6819470/education-turkey-talk/