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Turkey Restricts Foreign Education

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 17, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 24.

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Turkey Restricts Foreign Education

The Missionary Review of the World gives the following account of the position taken by the sultan of Turkey, showing that he is not a lover of knowledge for his subjects: “Following the graduation of the first Turkish girl at the American Girls’ College, the Turkish government has issued an edict prohibiting Turkish children from attending foreign schools, the employment of private teachers in Turkish households, or the appearance of Turkish women in public accompanied by Christian women companions.”