"Image of Turkey and education
Thursday, January 13, 2005
yusuf.kanli@tdn.com.tr
YUSUF KANLI
Turkey has many problems, but three of them are very important for the future of this country. The most pressing problem, of course, is education. The lack of adequate funds allocated to education or the absence of a proper education policy and long-term planning could easily be considered the �mother of all problems� for a country.
We have no intention of ignoring pressing health problems, and neither can one turn a blind eye to this country's terrible image problem abroad. Still, with a proper education policy, Turkey can achieve a mental reform, a must for transforming this society into one with a heightened awareness of its rights and responsibilities, and pave the way to a massive transformation campaign that would take this country with great speed to the level of 'primary league nations' in all spheres of life."
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