Pakistan has ordered more than 100 Turkish teachers and their family members to leave the country by November 20, in an apparent move to “please” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who started his two-day visit to Islamabad yesterday
Pakistan has asked the teachers of Pak-Turk institutions to leave in an apparent move to please Turkish President Erdogan. Pic/AFP
Lahore: Pakistan has ordered more than 100 Turkish teachers and their family members to leave the country by November 20, in an apparent move to “please” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who started his two-day visit to Islamabad yesterday.
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According to the interior ministry, the teachers of Pak-Turk schools have been asked to leave the country along with their family members within three days.
Some 108 Turkish teachers have been serving in the Pak-Turk Schools in the country. They along with their family members have been denied extension to their visas on the request of the Erdogan administration as these schools were run by US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen whom Erdogan blamed for July’s failed military coup.
The Pak-Turk Schools administration has expressed shock over the government’s decision, which it believes has been taken under pressure.
“Pak-Turk International Schools and Colleges are extremely concerned over the abrupt decision of the government,” said Pak-Turk Education Foundation Board of Directors chairman Alamgir Khan.
“Since we have removed all Turkish principals with the Pakistanis and publicly announced that it has no connection with Gulen movement, there has been no justification of this decision,” said an official of the Pak-Turk Schools.
He said now these schools have been operating under an NGO registered with the Pakistani government.
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