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Turkish PM to Go Ahead with Education Reform
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Xinhua English Newswire
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August 9, 1997
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Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz said today he is determined to
strive for the approval of the eight-year compulsory education reform
bill.
Yilmaz voiced his decision while inaugurating a newly built
hospital in the Black Sea city of Trabzon in northeastern Turkey, the
semi-official Anatolia News Agency said.
The prime minister vowed to keep on pushing for his
government-proposed eight-year compulsory education bill even if it
costs him his political career.
Referring to the pro-Islamic Welfare Party (RP) headed by former
Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan and its followers, Yilmaz noted that
those who vehmently oppose the education reform bill were actually
attempting to establish the rule ...