Turkey- Syrian refugee education vital in fight against extremism

2015-11-17 07:11:08

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) The education of Syria’s displaced youth is vital to ensure that Daesh and other extremist groups do not have a new generation of recruits U.S. and Turkish officials said Monday.

The State Department hosted a gathering of political civic and business leaders to discuss solutions to the gap in the numbers of Syrian youth living in Turkey who are unable to receive an education.

There are roughly 650000 school-age Syrian children in the countrywith Ankara providing 250000 with education each school year.

“We have to make sure ISIL will not steal the futures of these 400000 kids who have already had part of their childhood stolen” said White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. “Those kids are Syria’s future not ISIL not [Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad.“

“Closing our doors and turning a blind eye to the populations who continue to be in need is not the answer” he said.

The solution will have to be a multinational effortnot simply relegated to one country said Ali Osman Ozturk an adviser to Turkey’s deputy prime minister.

“Closing the education gap in Turkey is not a Turkish issue of course. It’s about Syrian children’s future” he said.“Turkey is pretty much using all the capacity allowing access to the education servicesalong with other Turkish students” he added.

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