Organized with the honor of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Chamber / Commodity Exchange Presidents as well as Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, attended to the program titled “From Schools to Future” held at the Presidential Complex by the Ministry of Education.
President Hisarcıklıoğlu met with the Chamber / Commodity Exchange Presidents prior to the program.
In his speech at the program, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “When we came to the government, we placed education and training at the top of our priorities. For many years, the education-training budget has been at the top of state expenditures. We strengthened our country's education and training infrastructure and manpower at every stage from kindergarten to higher education”.
Erdoğan emphasized that in Turkey, more than 18 million students receive training at as many as 70 thousand educational institutions and said “With private educational institutions and other educational units, it turns out that the number counts up to 86 thousand. In addition to those, our Ministry of National Education needs 13 thousand new schools with 21 thousand classrooms. In addition, some of the existing schools need to be strengthened against earthquake”.
