In Bosnian University has about a thousand students from Turkey – they attract low prices, good food, and the fair sex as the unchallenged right to wear a scarf on her head.
According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), yesterday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially opened the new students’ campus of the International University of Sarajevo (International University of Sarajevo, IUS) on the outskirts of the Bosnian capital, said «Global Post».
«I hope that this university will set up a cultural bridge that will connect people and ensure peace in the Balkans”, – he said, cutting the ribbon during the ceremony.
Premier Erdogan heads the government, and his wife wears the hijab. Turkey remains a secular state, the universities which women are forbidden to wear a headscarf. In Bosnia, this prohibition does not exist, and this is one of the reasons why the Turkish youth is sent to the relatively short journey to come to study in one of three international universities in Sarajevo, two of which are financed by Turkey.
Food and Finance excite students throughout the world, not only in Sarajevo. “There a lot of mosques, and the food is absolutely amazing – said to be an engineer from Istanbul Enezi Sisi. – Very similar to our culture ».
economics student IUS Mehmet Guner from the Turkish city of Bursa came here to study,” because it is cheaper than in the U.S., Canada or any European country ».
But there are other reasons specific to Turkey, founded in 1923 on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire once ruled and in Bosnia. The military judge and Turkey now blyudut its secularism.
«I came here because of problems with a handkerchief” – said studying architecture Kahid Nur Kunuk. In his own country after the Islamic theological institute, she could not act in any public or private university.
«We are happy to learn here – adds her friend Vildan Menge. – Bosnians Muslims, too, and very similar to us ».
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