Minister of National Education Tekin, who went to Şemdinli district within the scope of his programs in Hakkari, visited Cumhuriyet Primary School and Secondary School and the school in Üzümkıran hamlet of Korgan village.
Tekin visited the classrooms and chatted with the students, and also met with the teachers, listened to their demands, and received information about their studies.
Tekin then went to Şemdinli Municipality and received information about the work in the district from Mayor Fahri Şakar, and visited the AK Party District Headquarters.
In his statement here, Tekin said that they have been listening to the problems in Hakkari since yesterday, making decisions about what to do and meeting with citizens regarding the "Terror-Free Türkiye" process.
Stating that there were serious differences between before and after the AK Party government in Hakkari, Tekin emphasized that they increased the number of classrooms and teachers in the city by almost 3 times.
"Türkiye EXCEEDED THE OECD AVERAGE"
Stating that very important investments have been made in education in the city, Tekin stated that they have made intense efforts in the 22-23 year period, based on the instructions of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Explaining that the investments made in Türkiye are not appreciated by the opposition, Tekin said, "As a result of these efforts, the opposition in domestic politics does not know how to appreciate anything done, and says 'God bless you, you did this, but this is missing, let's do this too.' Because they don't know how to say it, they don't listen to what we say inside. OECD published its 2025 education outlook report. "In the OECD report, Türkiye exceeded the OECD average in terms of international indicators such as the number of students per classroom and the number of students per teacher." he said.
Stating that if the investments made in Türkiye are made in another country, this will be shown as an "education revolution", Tekin said, "If we read that in another country of the world, a country has built twice or three times as many classrooms and appointed teachers in 20 years as it did in the previous 70-80 years, it is taught in universities as a case study of that country as an 'educational revolution', but unfortunately the things we do are not taken into account in this sense because we do it. We make efforts for the future of this country, regardless of what anyone says." We will continue to do so.” made his statements.
"WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN THE PERCEPTION THAT WE ARE EQUAL CITIZENS OF THE COUNTRY"
Explaining that they made the necessary investigations regarding the ongoing investments in Hakkari and the works in the tender process, Tekin stated that they also evaluated the situations regarding new schools and classrooms that should be taken into account in the 2027 investment program.
Emphasizing that the main condition for the success of students, schools and education quality is the strengthening of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the country, Tekin said:
"If people in a country have concerns about their fundamental rights and freedoms, that is, if they do not have issues such as their life security, their freedom to define themselves ethnically or religiously, their freedom to live, their freedom of religious belief and worship, it is unlikely that we will produce social satisfaction from the things we talk about. No matter how much you invest, if people are forcibly exiled from the villages and lands of their ancestors and grandfathers and sent to other places, it is of no use to anyone to have a school in that village. If people cannot define themselves and cannot freely express their own ideas, education there is of no use to anyone." "For the services we provide and the public investments we talk about to be meaningful, to produce satisfaction among citizens and to strengthen our unity and solidarity, there is another step that needs to be taken. That step is to strengthen human rights, justice, our feelings of unity and solidarity in this country, and the perception that we are equal citizens of the same country."
"In Türkiye, in the last 50 years, tens of thousands of our children and young people lost their lives in this country because of the seeds of discord and elements of mischief introduced into us by outside forces that were disturbed by the unity and solidarity of the nation." Tekin said and continued:
"Some regions of this country have ceased to be regions where people can live freely. They have become regions where people cannot travel freely and where people cannot freely exercise their fundamental rights and freedoms that come from being human. As such, public investments in these regions and investments of the private sector to generate employment in this region have been disrupted for many years. We have not been able to establish the relationship between human rights and economic development, the rule of law and democracy and economic development. Unfortunately, the investments made here could not produce the social benefit we expected from them. We were faced with such a serious problem. Turkey is trying to solve this problem. "He attempted several times." he said.
"THE PROCESSES WHICH WE STARTED WITH HOPE WERE SUDDENLY DESTROYED BY A MANIPULATION"
Reminding that during the AK Party government period, in the founding declaration and party program published in 2001, he shared with the public a series of propositions that would make human rights, democracy and the rule of law dominant throughout Türkiye, Tekin emphasized that as a result of the social response of these propositions, the AK Party, which came to power in the first elections shortly after its establishment, started to implement policies that would ensure the national unity and solidarity that it had promised to the citizens.
Noting that regulations were made on human rights and democracy after the government was established, Tekin continued his words as follows:
"Immediately after the government was established, on November 30, 2002, we abolished the State of Emergency, which was one of the most troublesome regulations on human rights and democracy. After the State of Emergency, when we list them now, there are many things that we would say yes, we did these too, but we have forgotten. Almost everything we saw as a problem at that time regarding the Kurdish issue was resolved during the AK Party governments. As a result of these, processes were initiated to solve this problem from its roots. The 2007 and 2014 processes are important. "These were processes, but those who sowed the seeds of discord and profited from it, those who gained political and economic benefits from it, internal and external forces and their extensions who thought that the continuation of this war and the continuation of these violations were important for their own interests, unfortunately sabotaged these processes. The processes we started with hope were suddenly ruined and left unfinished due to manipulation."
Making evaluations about the "Terror-Free Turkey" process, Tekin said, "Those who come to Hakkari, those who go, those who come for investment, those who come for touristic trips, those who are looking for a place to stay, those who are looking for a place to eat, all of these are things that show that economic development will come with it after the guarantees regarding fundamental rights and freedoms related to human rights and democracy emerge. If this process continues in a healthy way, in a very short time, every region of our country will get its share of economic development on an equal basis in this sense. We too "We will act more comfortably while building schools, employing teachers, and planning education and training processes here. We will come more often, we will do things that we hope will yield more beneficial results, we will listen to problems more often and solve our problems together." he said.
Deputy Minister of National Education Celile Eren Ökten, Governor and Deputy Mayor İbrahim Taşyapan, Derecik District Governor İbrahim Yazıcı, who is the Deputy District Governor of Şemdinli, AK Party Provincial Chairman Zeydin Kaya and ministry managers were accompanied during the visits.
