The Yunus Emre Institute (YEE), which has been working in Egypt’s capital Cairo since 2010, instills a love of studying about Türkiye and the Turkish language in Egyptian youth by means of varied occasions it organizes.
The YEE is called the strongest group that promotes the educational of Turkish worldwide and operates in additional than 60 international locations. It organized an annual “Traditional Knowledge Contest” the place 24 Cairo YEE trainees, consisting of eight teams, participated within the information competitors held within the fields of tradition, artwork, literature and historical past.
The group that gained the competitors, which included many questions on the widespread tradition of the Egyptian and Turkish individuals, was awarded a scholarship for the Turkish programs organized by the Cairo Yunus Emre Institute.
The YEE presents in-person and on-line Turkish language programs and encourages Egyptian youth to be taught Turkish by means of varied occasions and competitions it organizes for the scholars.
The programs have been working in Cairo for about 12 years and train Turkish to roughly 700 college students each semester. The on-line programs had been launched in 2020 after the COVID-19 outbreak.
Two trainees who participated within the on-line “Meet Turkish” programs held within the fall semester of 2022 with the participation of roughly 8,000 college students and who adopted the social media accounts of the institute got round-trip tickets to Türkiye by the Cairo YEE.
Yara Semir, 29, one of many college students that gained a round-trip ticket, mentioned that she realized quite a bit in a really brief time from the net programs organized by the institute. “I have been watching Turkish TV series for a long time thus I know a little bit of Turkish, but I still wanted to improve my Turkish. Although the course was short, it allowed me to learn a lot and to go to Türkiye, which was my biggest dream,” she mentioned, additionally expressing her because of the YEE.
Şehd Hamid, 22, the opposite Egyptian trainee who gained a ticket to Türkiye inside the scope of Cairo YEE’s occasions, expressed that Türkiye is a gorgeous nation and that he desires to get to know Turkish tradition.
Hamid mentioned: “I’m not from Cairo. I’m from Port Said. I could not believe it when I learned that the institute would give two trainees a ticket to Türkiye. I was very happy when they announced that I had won the gift at the end of the course. Türkiye is a very beautiful country. I want to visit cities like Izmir and Istanbul.”
