TED BATMAN COLLEGE / 11-A
A Torch From Batman
Ayşegül GÜLTEKİN
As I ’ m one of the torches of Turkish Education Association , I would like to mention about its history from past to now briefly .
Turkish Education Association , I mean , Türk Eğitim Derneği , was established on 1st January 1928 , under Ataturk ’ s vision and leadership . The organization acquired the status of an ‘ association for public benefit ’ in the resolution of the Council of Ministers , on December 12 , 1939 . Ataturk always believed in the indisputable role of education in the modernization of Turkey .
Education has been one of the areas in which Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , together with the founding of the Republic of Turkey , focuses primarily on and supports all kinds of investments for its development .
TED is an old radical civil society organization which provides scholarship to successful students with low income , opens schools and dormitories , highly emphasizing foreign languages . At the same time , we can say that it is a language school . When the torch of Turkish Education Association started to burn , the foreign languages in Turkish education became active with the vision of this association .
As a student and a torch of TED , I am proud to be in this old radical association and have opportunity to get these privileges and benefits of this organization . I believe with all my heart that the torch of TED is going to light up forever .