Turkey’s Literacy Campaign Reaches Over 1 Million People

More than a million people have benefited from a literacy campaign launched by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and first lady Emine Erdoğan over the last two years.

The campaign, coordinated by the Ministry of National Education, has set up adult literacy courses at lifelong learning centers across the country. As of February 2018, authorities accelerated efforts to reach out to citizens denied the chance to develop their reading skills, with courses organized everywhere from schools to prisons, hospitals and the homes of elderly citizens……………………….