Turkish university to open faculties in northern Syria
Turkey’s Gaziantep University will open three faculties in small northern Syria towns. As Reuters news agency reported, an Islamic sciences faculty will be opened in Syria’s Azaz, an education faculty in Afrin, and a faculty of economics and administrative sciences in Al-Bab.
All three towns are in northwestern Syria, west of the Euphrates river and broadly north of Aleppo, in regions to which Turkey has twice sent forces in the last three years to drive back the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and Islamic State fighters, in a bid to protect its own border.
The towns have been struck in the past by bomb attacks, some of which have been blamed on Islamic State and others on Kurdish fighters.