CoHE President Özvar: “We will support the development and improvement
of universities in Syria”
“The Council of Higher Education is ready to share Türkiye's higher
education experience with the Syrian people. We continue to have
contacts with our counterparts on this issue.”
January 6, 2025 / Izmir
Erol Özvar, President of the Council of Higher Education, stated that the
Council of Higher Education and universities will support the development
and improvement of universities in Syria.
Özvar made a statement in Izmir, where he visited to organize the Fourth
Regional Meeting with Universities on the Vision of Turkish Higher
Education Towards 2030. He stated that Türkiye is ready to share its higher
education experience with the Syrian people and said, “We continue to have
contacts with our counterparts on this issue.”
He stated that they hope for a democratic order to be built in Syria that
the people will trust, and said:
“In Syria, there were various problems related to higher education caused
by the former regime. As the Council of Higher Education and universities,
we will work together with the Syrian people on this issue. The Council of
Higher Education is ready to share Türkiye's higher education experience
with the Syrian people. We have ongoing contacts in this regard. Türkiye
will support the development and improvement of universities there. We are
in contact with our colleagues. Just as we support all other countries in
the field of higher education within the framework of peace, friendship and
fraternity, we will provide all kinds of support to the Syrian people.”