Turkey's Education Ministry

Fifteen families from Greece's Athens, Thessaloniki and Crete have moved back to the Turkish island of Gökçeada over the last two years, following the reopening of schools on the northwestern Aegean island, the Agos newspaper has reported. 

This year, 26 students are enrolled in the island's secondary school and high school, up from 11 in the first year after reopening. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has advised Muslims "not to lock women up" in comments made in Istanbul at an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on women's roles.

"The logic that believes women should only be at home, is wrong," Erdoğan said Nov. 2, adding that "a strong nation cannot be built based on that logic." 

More than 11,000 teachers have been suspended over suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkey's Education Ministry announced on Sept. 8. 

"A total of 11,285 personnel linked to the separatist terrorist organization have been suspended," the ministry stated via Twitter. 

Seven million people above the age of 15 are illiterate in Turkey, according to statistics released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics to mark the 50th International Literacy Day on Sept. 8. The number corresponds to nearly one seventh of Turkey's population, which is nearly 79 million.

Turkey's Education Ministry will destroy textbooks written by the followers of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, believed to have been behind the July 15 failed coup attempt. The textbooks will be recycled, according to daily Milliyet.

Education services have ground to a halt in a number of southeastern Turkish towns during curfews imposed to conduct casualty-free military operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, daily Hürriyet has reported.

The high school entrance exam results of 519 non-Muslim students, who were exempt from questions on the Islamic faith, were re-calculated upon notices issued about erroneous calculations, Turkey's Education Ministry said in a written statement late June 30.