Turkey opens another school in Jarablus, in continuation of its Turkification policy in northern Syria

Opening a high school in the town of Jarablus

North-Press Agency

Turkish regime continue its policy of Turkification in the areas under its control in northern Syria, as well as following a strategy of demographic change and changing the identity of the region, through the settlement of its affiliated armed groups' families in the houses of the displaced indigenous people.

Since it has taken control over Syrian cities and towns, Turkey has changed the original names of the main streets and official departments, as well as changing the names of schools and villages and imposing the Turkish curricula.

In this context, Turkey opened a secondary school yesterday, on Sunday, in the town of Jarablus, in the north-eastern countryside of Aleppo, which is under its control, where the school bore the name of the Turkish assistant governor of the city of Gaziantep in Jarablus, "Ahmed Torgay Imam Geylar," who died in the Syrian town last year. While the name of the school was written in the Turkish language followed by the Arabic. Turkey has deliberately opened the high school on the 12th of this month, on the anniversary of the death of "Ahmed Geylar", the person was in charge of the town’s affairs,  who was responsible for the Turkish scientific activities.

The opening of the high school was attended by a number of Turkish officials, among whom the governor of Gaziantep, a member of the Turkish People's Assembly, Najat Kuger as a representative of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and a number of Turkish officials.

Earlier in November, the University of Gaziantep announced the opening of several colleges in northern Syria, which are a higher education school in the town of Jarablus, the College of Education in Afrin, the College of Islamic Sciences in Azaz, and the College of Administrative and Economic Sciences in al-Bab.

In 2018, the town of Jarablus witnessed the opening of a higher institute for vocational education. Earlier, the Turkish Ministry of Education had distributed Turkish school books to 360,000 students within its areas of control in Afrin, Jarablus, al-Bab, Azaz, al-Rai, Akhtarin and Marea.

It is noteworthy that Turkey, along with its armed opposition groups, took control over the town of Jarablus as a part of its military invasion “Euphrates Shield Operation” in 2016.