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The Grand Turk
Erdogan approves 3 Turkish university campuses for northern Syria
2019-10-07
[Rudaw] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
has approved a request from a Ottoman Turkish university to open three campuses in Ottoman Turkish controlled cities of northern Syria.

Gaziantep University, located on The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s shared border with Syria, applied to Ottoman Turkish education authorities this year to open three faculties in Jarabulus, al-Bab, and Afrin.

Erdogan approved the request on Thursday and logged in Turkey’s Official Gazette on Friday.

"We have ordered the opening of an Economic and Administrative Faculty in al-Bab, Islamic Sciences Faculty in Azaz, and Education Faculty in Afrin, which are affiliated to Gaziantep University’s Presidency," read the presidential decree.

The university opened a vocational training school in Jarabulus in October 2018.

Jarabulus and al-Bab came under the control of the Ottoman Turkish Army and its Syrian proxies during Operation Euphrates Shield in 2016. The Kurdish enclave of Afrin, meanwhile, was taken by these forces during Operation Olive Branch in March 2018.

Ali Gur, the rector of the university, told the state-owned Anadolu Agency (AA) in late May that their decision to open new campuses follows an increased demand for higher education in northern Syria.

"There was a high demand from local assemblies and provincial leaders. I went [to northern Syria] myself and saw the demand, they really need it," Gur said. "Some 2,700 prospective students have already taken proficiency exams."

There will also be scholarships for Syrians who were forced to leave school as a result of the conflict but decided to return, according to Gur.

The opening of the Ottoman Turkish university campuses could cause concern for the Kurds of Afrin, which until the Olive Branch offensive had been controlled the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).

Having established control over Afrin following the 2011 Syrian uprising, the group created a Kurdish education system, ending a decades-long ban on the Kurdish language.

The YPG-affiliated Hawar News Agency (ANHA) claimed the Ottoman Turkish plan to establish the higher education institutions "confirms" Ankara is trying to engineer the demographic of the region.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  H/t Keith Laumer
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2019-10-07 12:08  

#2  and also providing the "students" for those campuses?
Posted by: Bugs Schwarzeneggar3591   2019-10-07 11:25  

#1  Going to call military camps universities?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-10-07 01:09  

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