{"id":155037,"date":"2026-11-09T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=155037"},"modified":"2026-11-09T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T12:14:40","slug":"cavusoglu-addresses-eco-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/cavusoglu-addresses-eco-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu addresses ECO meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minister of National Education Naz\u0131m \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu attended an online meeting of the High-Level Experts Group (HLEG) of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Education Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a statement released by the Ministry of National Education, the meeting, in which the TRNC participated as an observer member, was chaired by T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s Minister of National Education, Yusuf Tekin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The meeting was also attended by education ministers and representatives from Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addressing the meeting, \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu stressed that education and science should be kept out of political disputes, stating that no young person should be deprived of access to knowledge, science and international educational opportunities due to geographical or political circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Referring to the international isolation and restrictions imposed on the Turkish Cypriot people, \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu noted that these conditions had a particularly negative impact on young people\u2019s opportunities for international education, academic mobility, scientific cooperation and cultural exchange.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu noted that they attach great importance to developing opportunities for international cooperation in the fields of education, science, culture and technology for Turkish Cypriot young people under the umbrella of the ECO, and said \u201cWe aim to strengthen cooperation rather than division, opportunities rather than barriers, and mutual interaction rather than isolation,\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of National Education Naz\u0131m \u00c7avu\u015fo\u011flu attended an online meeting of the High-Level Experts Group (HLEG)<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":154982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155038,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155037\/revisions\/155038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}