Şemsinur Özdemir

July 28, 2021

English teacher Elif Köken: The harmony, alliance and affection among our friends begot abundance

Elif Köken, who belongs to a family of immigrants from Greece living in Balıkesir, was 22 years old when she decided to migrate voluntarily with the […]
July 19, 2021

Biology Teacher Züleyha Özşahin (2): If they said, ‘You can go to Pakistan again’, I would go there without a second thought

We publish the second part of our interview with Züleyha Özşahin, a biology teacher who worked at the PakTurk Schools for 4.5 years. In this part, […]
July 13, 2021

Biology teacher Züleyha Özşahin (1): Getting to know Pakistani culture and people was one of the best things in my life

Züleyha Özşahin is a teacher in love with her profession. When she was still a high school student, she dreamed of going abroad for teaching, but […]
June 24, 2021

Maths Teacher Tuğba Ünverdi (2): Our Pakistani friends considered us no different than their own family members

We share the second and last part of the interview which we published yesterday. In this part, we talked with Mrs. Tuğba about her life in […]
June 23, 2021

Mathematics teacher Tuğba Ünverdi (1): While teaching what I knew in Pakistan, I also learned what I did not know

Mrs. Tuğba was an idealist young teacher who had just graduated from a university in Turkey. She was full of love for service to humanity. While […]
June 15, 2021

Turkish Teacher Ayşegül Karahan (2): I wished my children to grow up in Pakistan

We publish the second part of our interview with Ayşegül Karahan, who started working at PakTurk School in Karachi after teaching Turkish in Peshawar for 3 […]
June 9, 2021

Turkish Teacher Ayşegül Karahan: Pakistan was tough but beautiful

During the hours we talked with Ayşegül Karahan, who taught Turkish at the PakTurk Schools, about her life in Pakistan, the sentence she most often repeated […]
May 29, 2021

Educationist Hüseyin Yılmaz: I miss our Pakistani ‘elder brothers’ the most

Hüseyin Yılmaz, who went to Pakistan as a university student years ago, continued to work in the PakTurk Schools after his graduation. He got so used […]
May 4, 2021

Turkish students’ ‘mom in a foreign land’ Ayşegül Akyıldız: We know the hardships suffered are not in vain

Homemaker Ayşegül Akyıldız, who went to Pakistan with her two children and her husband when the PakTurk Schools were under duress, especially tried to stand by […]