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New update: Syria's ( Kurdish) Education minister promised to fast track Kurdish language education. Full text below.
Minister of Education and Higher Education Muhammad Abdul Rahman Turko:
📌 In a pivotal national moment, the issuance of Decree No. 13 of 2026 by His Excellency the President of the Republic represents a new affirmation that Syria, with its ancient history and civilizational mission, is built upon the diversity of its people and its unity is solidified through respect for their cultural and linguistic identities within an inclusive national framework that excludes no one and marginalizes no component.
📌 The approval of teaching the Kurdish language in public schools, as stipulated by the decree, constitutes an advanced step in strengthening the values of equal citizenship and entrenching the cultural rights of Kurdish citizens as an integral part of the Syrian national fabric, and a tangible contribution to preserving cultural diversity as one of the sources of the civilizational and social richness of the Syrian state, and a clear embodiment of the state's commitment to the educational and cultural rights of its citizens without discrimination or exclusion.
📌 Based on our national and educational responsibility, we affirm in the Ministry of Education and Higher Education that we will proceed to prepare the necessary executive instructions and organizational decisions to implement the provisions of this decree in the shortest possible time, ensuring its immediate entry into actual implementation in everything related to the ministry's work, while taking into account established educational principles and academic standards, and guaranteeing a balanced and disciplined application that achieves the desired national and humanitarian goal.
📌 We believe that the Syrian school will remain the primary incubator for societal unity, and that education is the truest bridge for entrenching understanding, deepening national belonging, and building generations confident in their identity, proud of their diversity, and steadfast in the unity of their homeland in land and people.
📌 We pledge that our national schools will remain a space of belonging, not exclusion; a platform of justice, not discrimination; and a tool for preserving diversity to fortify unity among the people of this homeland, and a bridge of love that connects all Syrians—heart and soul, form and content.
If 10% of that becomes actual reality in schools, it might be an acceptable outcome.