Sun 07 November 2021:
Turkey has reopened ten girls-only schools in Afghanistan, following talks with the Taliban to increase opportunity for women in the country.
During a parliamentary meeting on Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced that ten out of the 14 girls-only schools run by the Maarif Foundation – a Turkish state-funded organisation which runs 80 schools overall in the country – have been reopened.
According to Cavusoglu, he held talks with a visiting Taliban delegation last month, led by Afghanistan’s interim foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, in which he encouraged the new Taliban government to be inclusive of all groups in the country and to allow more opportunities for women.
Alongside that, organisations like the Maarif Foundation would be proactive in carrying out those goals. “Of course our suggestions [to the Taliban] aren’t enough. That’s why ten out of 14 schools administered by Maarif Foundation have reopened,” Cavusoglu told the parliamentary meeting.
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