Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has asked his followers to be resolute and not yield to despair in the face of a government attempt to shut down private educational institutions that assist students to prepare for high school and university admission examinations, which was interpreted as a major blow to the right to an education and to free enterprise in the EU-candidate country.
November 18, 2013
What lies beneath the prep-school row?
Sevgi Akarçeşme
Today's Zaman's headlines over the last couple of days on the government's plan to shut down the prep schools -- institutes called dershanes that help students prepare for Turkey's standardized high school and college entrance exams -- might seem insignificant and even irrelevant to a foreign observer. After all, why have a nationwide debate on something that doesn't seem to be a pressing issue for the country or the region?
Today's Zaman's headlines over the last couple of days on the government's plan to shut down the prep schools -- institutes called dershanes that help students prepare for Turkey's standardized high school and college entrance exams -- might seem insignificant and even irrelevant to a foreign observer. After all, why have a nationwide debate on something that doesn't seem to be a pressing issue for the country or the region?
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