Memories

February 18, 2021

What was the punishment for mistaking Haripur for Khairpur?

Education volunteer Yavuz İlbay, who worked at PakTurk Schools for about 15 years, wrote an interesting memory that came to his mind after hearing about the […]
February 23, 2021

Why was the Turkish flag placed on the Pakistani student’s grave?

Anum Anwar was a student who had contracted cancer and died while studying at the PakTurk Schools. Anum, who loved Turkey and her Turkish teachers, had […]
February 26, 2021

Teachers’ most painful farewell: They buried their ‘hearts’ in the soil (Video)

Turkish teachers and administrators of PakTurk Schools had to leave Pakistan with their families at the end of 2016 by the decision of the political will. […]
February 27, 2021

Running into Urdu just as breaking through English!

In this part of his memoir, educationist and writer Mehmet Karadayı narrates the process of his adjustment to the life in Pakistan and details his haircut […]
March 2, 2021

Turkish MP: I liked the name of the schools the most

Educator Engin Yiğit wrote about Multan also known as “the Konya of Pakistan” and his memories there. While describing the growth process of the PakTurk Schools, […]
March 2, 2021

Pachees(25) is so much, let that be charlees(40) rupees!

Educator Yavuz İlbay shared a colourful memory from the years he had taught in Quetta. We hope this incident which happened in a period while he […]
March 4, 2021

The fruits Turks missed in the ‘Fruit Paradise’ called Pakistan!

Researcher Doğan Yücel, who wrote about the fruits of Pakistan in his last two articles, this time wrote about the fruits that cannot be or rarely […]
March 5, 2021

Lahore’s modest and ardent philanthropist: I. Malik Khan Sahib

Researcher Dr. Doğan Yücel wrote about I. Malik Khan Sahib, the late philanthropist businessman from Lahore, whom he had met in consequence of a synchronicity and […]
March 6, 2021

I’m unable to write!

Rüveyda Arslanhan, an educator who worked in the PakTurk Schools for many years, wrote about the “Pakistan in her heart”. Even though Arslanhan says, “I am […]