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THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2022
Afghan girls take exams for Turkish-run schools in Kabul

South Asia

Reuters
27 November, 2021, 10:50 am
Last modified: 27 November, 2021, 10:53 am

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Afghan girls take exams for Turkish-run schools in Kabul

Afghan-Turk schools are regarded among the top schools in Afghanistan and admission is highly competitive

Reuters
27 November, 2021, 10:50 am
Last modified: 27 November, 2021, 10:53 am
Afghan girls play in a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 18, 2021. Photo :Reuters
Afghan girls play in a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 18, 2021. Photo :Reuters

Hundreds of Afghan girls took entrance exams on Friday for a Turkish foundation in Kabul that runs some of Afghanistan's most highly regarded schools, despite a delay by the Taliban in allowing the 13-year-olds to return to the classroom.

Some 3,500 students sat the highly competitive exams for the Afghan-Turk school system, with girls making up almost 40% of candidates, Reza Parsa, a school official, said.

The move came despite the Taliban government's delay in authorising girls above grade 7 - aged about 13 - to return to school following a ban imposed when the movement seized power in August.

"We want all girls to be educated. This is our president's and our government's wish and that of Afghans," the Educational Councillor at Kabul's Turkish Embassy, Changez Idmir, said at a news conference to mark the holding of the entrance tests.

Facing mounting global pressure, the Taliban have said they will allow older girls to resume classes once arrangements are made to ensure they can do so in conformity with what the movement considers proper Islamic standards.

Afghan-Turk schools are regarded among the top schools in Afghanistan and admission is highly competitive.

Unofficially, many parts of the country have seen older girls restart classes, while officially the Taliban say they are still working on a national system.

An official of the Taliban-led education ministry, Ehsan Khateb, also attended the ceremony and thanked the Turkish government.

Afghan-Turk schools have had to make changes to their curriculum, shutting music, theatre and dance departments at the request of Taliban officials, the head of the Turkish educational foundation, Salleh Saghar, told Reuters.

The foundation respected the rules and culture of the host country, he said.

"Like the music, theatre and dancing department ... based on Taliban requests we closed the departments," he said, and it was for the Taliban government to decide if they would reopen.

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