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Turkish President Erdogan signed the decision to open a branch of a Turkish university in the Syrian town of Al-Rai in Azaz region, which the Turkish occupation authorities transferred its name to “Joban Bey”. The decision was published in the Official Gazette, on Saturday 6/2/2021.
It stated that a medical college and a higher institute of health sciences would be opened in the town of Al-Rai, and that they would follow the Turkish University of Health Sciences in Istanbul, according to the Turkish Anadolu Agency.
For its part, Damascus officially expressed its rejection of the Turkish decision to open a college and institute of Istanbul University in the town of Al-Rai, north of Aleppo, and in an official statement issued by the Syrian Foreign Ministry and Expatriates described the decision as “a dangerous act and a flagrant violation of international law and the United Nations Charter,” and said: Syria rejects it “altogether” And detailed ”.
The official SANA agency quoted an official source in the Syrian Foreign Ministry as saying: The invalid decision constitutes a continuation of the Turkish regime’s practices in fueling and prolonging the crisis in Syria and supporting terrorist parties and organizations such as (the Muslim Brotherhood), (ISIS) and (Jabhat al-Nusra) to serve its agendas, and the fulfillment of his Ottoman ambitions and illusions.”
The current decision comes within the framework of an integrated process of annexing the occupied areas to Turkey, which includes various aspects of service, economy, communications, and severing its relations with the Syrian interior, in the context of the policy of devoting the Turkification of the occupied areas in northern Syria.