An Afghan girl learning medication in Türkiye goals to deal with individuals in Afghanistan and serve her nation as a tribute to her father.
“After seizing power in Afghanistan last year, the Taliban attempted to project a more moderate image, but their recent act of banning Afghan women shows that the Taliban did not keep their promise, barring women from studying and working. A number of families’ breadwinner is solely their daughter, who is responsible for the household as well. If she is prohibited from working, how will she manage a living for her family?” Selgey Ismailhil, a scholar at Istanbul’s Cerrahpaşa Medical School, defined.
The Taliban administration in Afghanistan banned ladies from receiving post-secondary schooling amid criticism over its poor document of girls’s rights. Despite promising a softer rule after they seized energy final yr, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all points of girls’s lives, ignoring worldwide outrage.
The ban on increased schooling comes lower than three months after hundreds of girls took college entrance exams throughout the nation, with many aspiring to decide on educating and medication as future careers.
While the Taliban’s choice to droop the schooling of women in Afghanistan is being mentioned everywhere in the world, Ismailhil, who research medication in Türkiye, stated that ladies must be allowed to check and work, opposing the Taliban’s ban.
As the thirteenth baby of a household, Ismailhil advised Anadolu Agency (AA) about her journey from Afghanistan to Türkiye, her will to check medication and her increased schooling in Türkiye, which helps her dream to serve her nation someday.
Stating that she is learning in Türkiye with the help of the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB), Ismailhil stated that she scored nicely on the college entrance examination in her nation in 2021. She additionally stated that she was solely 6 years outdated when she misplaced her father, and it was her father’s dream for her to turn out to be a physician.
“My father always taught me to help needy people and become a good doctor, to treat patients especially affected in warzones and struggling for the betterment of this country.”
Sharing particulars about her tutorial life, she additionally recalled her first day and the thrill of it, describing it as “unforgettable” as a result of Türkiye was the nation she had particularly chosen for her increased schooling.
In addition to the standard of schooling, she additionally emphasised that her alternative to check in Türkiye was influenced by the cultural ties between the 2 nations, since each hosts a Muslim majority.
Expressing her sorrow, she stated that the choice of the Taliban administration to droop the schooling of feminine college students had left her heartbroken, and this has additionally bolstered her dedication to work onerous and assist to serve the nation.
After the Taliban took over the nation, universities had been pressured to implement new guidelines, together with gender-segregated lecture rooms and entrances, whereas girls had been solely permitted to be taught by girls professors or outdated males.
Most teenage ladies throughout the nation have already been banned from secondary college schooling, severely limiting college enrollment.
Noting that she wished ladies to be allowed to proceed their schooling and work in her nation because the financial scenario in Afghanistan is already unhealthy, she emphasised that it’s “very important” for ladies to obtain medical schooling and said that ladies in Afghanistan also needs to examine medication.
Talking about her tutorial life in Türkiye, she expressed her satisfaction with how shortly she obtained used to dwelling in Türkiye. She has 4 Afghan pals in her dormitory and lots of different Turkish pals.
The Ministry of Higher Education of the Taliban Transitional Government introduced on Dec. 20 that the schooling of feminine college students was suspended till additional discover, with the directions it despatched to all private and non-private universities in Afghanistan.
In addition, on Dec. 24, the Taliban suspended nongovernmental organizations’ (NGOs) employment of feminine personnel till additional discover. It was famous that the licenses of NGOs that didn’t terminate the employment of feminine personnel can be revoked.
Thereupon, some worldwide help organizations within the nation, resembling Save The Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE, stopped their work.
Responding to the ban, the International Rescue Committee stated: “The closure of universities to women and girls is a chilling step backward for Afghanistan. There are no two ways about it. Women must be allowed to work and to move freely, and girls must be allowed to continue to go to school.”
