{"id":58983,"date":"2026-02-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2026\/02\/24\/istanbul-launches-100-quran-memorization-courses-a-project-to-support-early-childhood\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T00:00:00","slug":"istanbul-launches-100-quran-memorization-courses-a-project-to-support-early-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2026\/02\/24\/istanbul-launches-100-quran-memorization-courses-a-project-to-support-early-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul Launches 100 Quran Memorization Courses: A Project to Support Early Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;color:#EE0000\">Istanbul Launches<br \/>\n100 Quran Memorization Courses: A Project to Support Early Childhood<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The Governor of Istanbul, Mr.<br \/>\nDavut G\u00fcl, announced a plan to launch 100 courses dedicated to teaching<br \/>\nchildren aged 4 to 6 how to memorize the Quran, as part of a comprehensive<br \/>\nprogram aimed at enhancing early childhood services and addressing the shortage<br \/>\nof nurseries and kindergartens in the city.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">Mr. G\u00fcl stated that the courses<br \/>\nwill be organized in cooperation with the Turkish Presidency of Religious<br \/>\nAffairs, noting that their educational framework aligns with the curricula used<br \/>\nin kindergartens under the Turkish Ministry of National Education, with a focus<br \/>\non developing fundamental skills and reinforcing educational values.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">As part of a broader plan, the<br \/>\nprovincial administration intends to establish 100 new nurseries, which will be<br \/>\nhanded over to the Turkish Ministry of Family and Social Services for<br \/>\nmanagement, in addition to building 100 new kindergartens. This will bring the<br \/>\ntotal number of institutions planned under the initiative to 300 facilities<br \/>\ndedicated to early childhood care and education.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">These steps come amid ongoing<br \/>\ninvestigations into allegations related to one of the nurseries affiliated with<br \/>\nthe Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, following complaints submitted by<br \/>\nfamilies in the Ey\u00fcp Sultan district.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The governor emphasized that the<br \/>\nrelevant authorities are reviewing compliance with regulations governing<br \/>\nnursery operations.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">The new program aims to<br \/>\nstrengthen the educational and social infrastructure for children, providing a<br \/>\nsafe environment that combines early care with educational development, thereby<br \/>\ncontributing to the advancement of early childhood systems and expanding access<br \/>\nto structured education.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">(Source: Turkey Press)<span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:1.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:\n&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;color:#EE0000\">* \u0644\u0644\u0627\u0637\u0644\u0627\u0639 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u062c\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062e\u0628\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u063a\u0629<br \/>\n\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/span><\/b><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;\nfont-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u060c \u0627\u0636\u063a\u0637 (<span style=\"color:#EE0000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/ar\/ContentDetails.aspx?ID=41074\" target=\"_blank\">\u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/b><b><span dir=\"LTR\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul Launches 100 Quran Memorization Courses: A Project to Support Early Childhood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":59328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}