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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

In addition, the Turkish Teaching Module for Foreigners was prepared for 6-12-year-
old students. 4,200 teachers were employed to teach Turkish, and 925,000 books were
purchased from the Yunus Emre Institute’s curriculum for teaching Turkish to foreigners
and distributed in 30 provinces. Furthermore, during field visits we learned that there
also is support for non-formal education activities organized by municipalities and
non-governmental organizations for Syrians in our country, which includes vocational
education, religious education, and Turkish language education.

◊ University Students

Various measures were taken at the Council of Higher Education’s Executive Council
meeting on October 9, 2013 in respect to higher education for countries determined
to be unstable due to violent events and crises. In this framework, it was decided that
Turkish citizens, the citizens of these countries, and foreign students in these countries
who started training programs at the associate, undergraduate, or graduate level (except
medical and dentistry specialization programs) in Syria and Egypt before the 2013-
2014 academic year can do the following during lateral transfers to higher education
institutions in our country:

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