About 39260000 Syrian children39 get education in Turkey

10/27/2015 12:19:36 PM

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) About 260000 Syrian children are registered as pupils in Turkey out of which around 50000 studyat state schools a senior Turkish Education Ministry official said Tuesday.

According to Turkish Education Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Yusuf Buyuk about 50000 Syrian children “are being educated in our own [state] schools. We are increasing this number steadily”.

However the challenge of educating all Syrian children in Turkey remains.Buyuk saidthat outof the 2.2 million Syrian refugees in Turkey about 650000 are children of school age whichmeans that about 390000 Syrian children were out of schools.

Buyuk also chaired anevaluation meeting dedicated to the Adana Action Plan which was being carried out by the Turkish Education Ministry and the United Nations Children's Fund representatives in Turkey.

The action plan isbeing implementedin severalTurkish provinces including Adana Gaziantep Hatay Kahramanmaras Kilis Mardin Mersin Osmaniye and Sanliurfa where the density of Syrian refugee population was high.

According tothe action plan Syrian voluntary teachers willbe promoted and trained;educationalmaterials will be distributed to Syrian children;new education centers will be builtas well as functioning schools will be reconstructed and arranged to serve Syrian pupils.

The wars in Syria and many parts of Iraq have affected some 14 million children according to a United Nations Children's Fundreport published in March 2015. The children's body said that more than a million Syrian children were among refugees taking shelter in Turkey and another million in Lebanon and Jordan.The organization said that some 2.6 million Syrian children remainedout of school inside Syria as a result of the ongoing four-and-half yearslong civil war.

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