Serra Karaçam

 The focus of the UNESCO’s 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report is on migration and the social policies pertaining specifically to their education and assimilation.  Titled  Migration, displacement & education: Building Bridges, Not Walls,  and the report explores the education policy measures undertaken by host countries for migrants and refugees. The report is published by UN but is independently funded and staffed.  The report highlights the efforts by countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey  for inclusive refugee education policies, where almost a third of the world’s refugees are hosted, over half of whom are over the age of 18.     At the end of 2017, seven countries hosted 51% of the world’s 19.9 million refugees, excluding Palestinian refugees. Turkey hosted the most (3.5 million). In addition, 5.4 million Palestinian refugees lived in four countries. In total, low and middle income countries hosted about 89% o...

Is Turkey undergoing a domestic fight for the soul of the nation? Good news came from the court in Turkey for the former Wall Setreet Journal Turkey reporter. A Turkish court threw out the conviction against a former Wall Street Journal reporter Ayla Albayrak, related to terrorist propaganda because of her article in WSJ. But actually Turkey was drawn into an another freedom of expression weighing on November 10, during the death anniversary of the founder of the modern Turkey, Ataturk. In fact, the debate first started in July when a young woman published the video she took at Ataturk's tomb in Ankara and posted it on social media.  The woman was telling that Ataturk can’t even be Erdogan’s excrement… She was subsequently  arrested for the offense. Then Police held her in custody. She testified her regret and was then released. On November 10, a woman in the western city of Edirne, Trakya University student, said that “Ataturk is not God, Allah has laws” to co...