VAN
Three new schools will be built with 5 million Turkish Liras (TRY) grant of the Pakistani government following the earthquakes occurred in 2011 in Van, east of Turkey.
The Pakistani government provided financial assistance worth of 5 million TRY in the scope of building brand new schools in Turkey's eastern province of Van, where hundreds of houses were destroyed extensively in the earthquakes that took place between October 23 and November 9, 2011.
Groundbreaking ceremony took place on Sunday afternoon at the Vali Mithatbey neighborhood of the city where one of the schools will be built.
Speaking at the ceremony, Munir Karaloglu, governor of Van, said that Pakistan and Turkey were two sister countries and added, Pakistan was one of those countries who always helped Turkey during extraordinary situations or disasters at first place.
Karaloglu reminded the aid assistance of Pakistan just after the earthquakes and said, they were very happy to be at the groundbreaking ceremony of a high school which was supported from Pakistan.
Governor Karaloglu noted, three of the Pakistani schools were planned to be completed by October 2013 and they would like to host Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the opening of the education year of 2013-2014.
