Mansur Yavaş’s ‘cleansing’ response to Minister Tekin

Ankara Metropolitan Municipal Mayor (ABB) Mansur Yavaş responded to the statement of National Education Minister Yusuf Tekin saying, “The metropolitan mayor comes out and cleans only 13 of 2,300 schools for one day, and the then saying ‘I cleaned all the schools in Ankara’. “He replied from his media account…

Yavaş answered as follows:

-We rolled up our sleeves by adopting the principle of the Great Leader Atatürk, ‘No one has to sacrifice in education’ and saying ‘Clean school, healthy future’. 533 of our schools asked us to clean up.

-We cleaned 83 of them and made a clean spice for our children. Unfortunately, after reporting, 450 of our schools withdrew their cleaning requests and canceled them. And there were people who said to our teams who went to clean up, ‘The school is closed’ or ‘Renovation work is going on.’ And later, messages were sent to the ‘principals of the school’.

– Due to the opinion expressed, we could only clean for three weekends. We provide material support to our schools, but we also encounter obstacles. We received requests for cleaning supplies from 1,147 schools. “We fulfilled the requests of 675 of them, but here again, some people were disturbed and 472 of the requests were cancelled,” he said.

We have been putting asphalt in our schools and manufacturing road signs since 2019. We put 46 thousand tons of asphalt in our schools. The amount we spent on asphalt work and road marking has reached 90 million 598 thousand TL. The award for the work we have done for our schools in all our areas between 2019 and 2024, at the current exchange rate, has exceeded 150 million TL. With our understanding of a social city, we carry out projects and offer services to ensure equal opportunities in education.

Stationery support: We reach around 160 thousand students every year. It reached a total of 254 million 648 thousand 650 TL.

Service support: We pay the service fees for 9 thousand 780 primary school children. The total number of payments made so far has reached 135 million 402 thousand 271 TL.

Membership support: We regularly provide monthly membership support of 100 thousand trips to approximately 50 thousand middle and high school aged children.

Canteen support: We regularly support around 19 thousand primary school children in the canteen every month. So far, we have reached a total support of 112 million 672 thousand 860 TL.

Milk aid: We provide 6 liters of milk aid every month to our children aged 2-5. About 45 thousand children benefit from it every month. Here too, we exceeded a total of 142 million 240 thousand TL.

Clothing support: We paid a total of 13 million 979 thousand TL to the families of about 14 thousand children who have just started primary school for their school uniform.

Holiday allowance: We made 100 thousand children happy with a holiday allowance of 39 million 812 TL in total.

Report card gifts: We invested a total of 26 million 117 thousand TL in report card gifts for approximately 139 thousand children studying at primary, secondary and high school levels.

Exam support: So far, we have paid a total of 18 million 812 TL, including travel and meal fees, to about 51 students for the YKS, KPSS and LGS exams.

Sports courses: We provide sports courses in 9 branches for 10 thousand children between the ages of 6-16.

Soup support: We distribute 2,500 soups a day in our 3 universities.

Food support: We host our university students in our accommodation centres. “We provide free breakfast and dinner to 450 students every day.”

-Dear Minister Yusuf Tekin, we expect your cooperation. Our goal is never conflict or political gain. Because our children are our future. Our efforts to build the future of our children will continue until the end.