52 Trucks Loaded to Build School in Sudan
Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Bülent Arinç and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir met on Wednesday at the Friendship Meeting Center in Khartoum. Arinç arrived in the Sudan on Monday at the invitation of Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir, the Sudanese National Assembly Speaker.
Arinç and Al-Tahir will sign an agreement to boost current cooperation between the two countries. Arinç will also meet with Turkish citizens and businessmen living in Sudan. The Turkish parliamentary speaker will be attending an opening of a Turkish school and inspect the activities of Turkish companies operating in Sudan. A businessman from the Turkish city of Manisa built a school in Khartoum.
For the Turkish businessman, the school in the Sudan was not as easy as building schools in other countries. Because of the high price of construction materials, the production of a prefabricated school took three months in Ankara. The school was loaded onto 52 trucks and taken to the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun and then shipped to Sudan. It was loaded onto trucks again and transported 200 kilometers to Khartoum. The school building traveled thousands of kilometers by land and air and was put together within seven months. The Sudanese Turkish School now has 700 students and the official opening was held on Jan. 15 with Bülent Arinç in attendance. President of MASİAD (Industrialists and Businessmen of Manisa) and architect Ömer Yerkazanoğlu, who drew up the project, said that Minister of State Kürşat Tüzmen laid the foundation of the school in Khartoum last May. Yerkazanoğlu explained that the prefabricated school was manufactured in Turkey because of the high price of construction materials in Sudan. "The school was transported thousands of kilometers and built within seven months with the contribution of Manisa businessmen," he added.
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