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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

(Source: Anadolu News Agency)
In 2015, these schools came under the supervision of MoNE and continued their
activities with a Turkish administrator. As a result of realizing that the war would not
end in a short time, steps have taken since 2016 to provide intensive Turkish teaching
programs for students under temporary protection. In this context, an average of 5
hours of Turkish lessons a week were added to the Arabic curriculum in the TTCs,
which were trained by the curriculum prepared in their own languages through course
programs specially created by the Board of Education; in the 2016-2017 academic year,
Turkish lessons were increased to 15 hours per week. This approach is intended to
facilitate Syrian students’ gradual transition to public schools by taking Turkish and
academic content courses.

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