Manager of the Kyrgyz/Turkish Education Association President Orhan Inandi who heads the schools explained that when the schools started the teaching staff was volunteers and there were only 3 schools. Now, Inandi said, in the past 20 years the Kyrgyz/Turkish Education Association has opened 14 high schools and a university. Inandi stated that over the past 20 years 9 thousand children have graduated from the Kyrgyz/Turkish schools.
The Turkish Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Nejat Akcal said that the schools had made an important human investment in Kyrgyzstan. Akcal related that he felt this investment would help Kyrgyzstan in the future. Akcal said that everyone wanted the work of the joint Kyrgyz/Turkish schools to continue. Akcal then presented school head Inandi with a service award for all of Inandi’s service.
Attending the celebration in place of Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambeyev was Assistant Minister of Security and Defence Basurmankul Tadaldiyevich. Atambeyev’s spokesman Tadaldiyevich stressed that it was from the work of businessmen and teachers at the schools that the future of Kyrgyzstan had been created.
Tadaldiyevich reminded the audience that Turkey had been the first nation to extend a helping hand when Kyrgyzstan had gone through hard times.
Published on DunyaTimes, 08 May 2012, Tuesday
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