Yusuf Tekin described the 'table of success' like this: 'They brought things to the point of sabotaging things with a school attack...'
Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin announced in his statement in Hakkari that a student died as a result of a knife attack at a secondary school in Başakşehir.
Quick Look
- Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin stated in his statement in Hakkari that a student died in a knife attack at an imam-hatip secondary school in Başakşehir, Istanbul.
- Tekin defended curriculum changes in education.
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Why It Matters
The Ministry of National Education has implemented a new curriculum under the name of Türkiye Century Education Model as of 2024.
Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin visited AKP Yüksekova District Presidency within the scope of his visits to Hakkari.
Claiming that an incredibly beautiful atmosphere was created in schools during Ramadan last year, Tekin stated that they revised the curriculum under the name of Türkiye Century Education Model as of the beginning of 2024.
Tekin stated that they wanted children to be introduced to a new curriculum that would improve their academic success and to grow up with national and spiritual values, and said, "We changed our curriculum so that our children would grow up with the awareness of unity and solidarity in our schools, with a logic that sees each other as brothers rather than alienating each other. After we did this, we started to implement it and Türkiye was transformed."
"THEY WANTED TO SABOTATE"
Tekin stated that those who were disturbed by the fact that unity and solidarity in Türkiye should be permanent, that the law of brotherhood should be eternal, and that a generation that respects human rights and a generation that is devoted to national and moral values began to shout, and said:
"First they raised their voices, then after the event in Ramadan last year, they suddenly brought things to a point where they could sabotage things with a school attack. In a meeting we held in Bratislava this year, Turkey, which could not even be in the top 30 among 38 countries in 2003 in the last evaluation in the world, that is, in the evaluation dated September 8, entered the top 15 among 91 countries. In the PISA exam conducted by the OECD. While OECD executives invited us to the podium, 'We invite the Minister of National Education of the Republic of Türkiye to the podium to explain how Türkiye achieved this incredible education revolution.' "They called us."
"THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT UNITY IN Türkiye.."
Tekin claimed that after this development, people who do not want unity and solidarity in Türkiye, who do not want brotherhood to be strengthened in this country, who do not want children to grow up qualified, started to cause unpleasantness and unrest in schools again and said:
"Right after the meeting on September 8, we experienced an incident in Turgutlu, Manisa. We experienced it in Osmaniye. Today, this morning, we experienced a sad incident at Başakşehir Imam Hatip Secondary School in Istanbul. A female student, a student from another high school, wears the uniform of that school, goes to the secondary school and attacks our children there with a knife. I was just informed. We had a seriously injured student. We lost that student. May God rest his soul. Rest in peace. I offer my condolences to his family.
"I have a warning to those who carried out this incident, to those who motivated this incident: we will all do this together, we will achieve this, inshallah, despite you and despite those who want to prevent this, we will achieve the unity and solidarity of this country."
Open Questions
- What is the identity and motivation of the attacker?
- What are the new measures to be taken regarding school security?






