- Turkey To Transfer Syrian Refugee Children To Turkish Official Schools

- Agencies (IRW) - Syrian refugee children in #Turkey are set to receive compulsory Turkish education, according to new regulations imposed by the Turkish Education Ministry, which has also decided that Syrian children should be directed to official schools.

The ministry has prepared a report regarding the education statuses of foreign students under temporary protection in Turkey and made it obligatory for kindergarten and elementary school children to register.

The ministry decided to offer an intensive Turkish language program to those who have already begun going to schools in Turkey before they move to upper classes in official Turkish schools.

According to data from November 2016 of the Interior Ministry’s Directorate General of Migration Management, the efforts to gradually register some 833,039 Syrian children at school age to official schools under the ministry have been ongoing.

Source: Hurriyet Daily News