The Health Tourism Council remembered retired teacher Emir Ali Başar, who made significant contributions to Turkish Cypriot education, on Teachers' Day
Ahmet Savaşan, President of the Health Tourism Council and members of the board of directors visited Emir Ali Başar, a retired teacher who made significant contributions to Turkish Cypriot education, on the occasion of Teachers' Day and presented a plaque. Savaşan also visited the Cyprus Turkish Teachers Association and congratulated the teachers on Teachers' Day.
Ahmet Savaşan thanked retired teacher and chief inspector Emir Ali Başar for his important contributions to education for 35 years and said: “Teachers, who prepare our children for the future in the best way and lead them to the good, the beautiful, the bright and the knowledge, are the owners of a sacred duty to raise our country to a high level of civilization and to create a well-educated and well-equipped generation.”.
Ahmet Savaşan reminded Atatürk's quote “education is what makes a nation live either as a free, independent, glorious and high community or leaves a nation to bondage and misery” and underlined that education is of vital importance in the lives of people and states.
Stating that the knowledge and culture produced by a society can only be transferred to new generations through education, Ahmet Savaşan said that civilizations that have achieved great success throughout history have attached great importance to education.
Underlining that the first condition for a nation to reach a respectable place is education and the most important actors are teachers, Ahmet Savaşan said “the future will be the work of young people and young people will be the work of teachers”.
Finally, Savaşan said, “We sincerely congratulate the November 24th Teachers” Day of our faculty members and staff and all our teachers who devote themselves to education and teaching all over our country; we present our respect and love to all our teachers.".
In his speech during the visit, Emir Ali Başar thanked Ahmet Savaşan, President of the Health Tourism Council, for the value he attaches to teachers and the sensitivity he shows to issues related to human life.
