{"id":10832,"date":"2026-04-18T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/18\/turkey-taliban-new-educational-center-khost-grades-7-12\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:30:17","slug":"turkey-taliban-new-educational-center-khost-grades-7-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/18\/turkey-taliban-new-educational-center-khost-grades-7-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey and Taliban Agree to Establish New Educational Center in Khost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation from the Turkish Educational Foundation pledged on Saturday, during a meeting with Abdullah Mukhtar, the Taliban-appointed governor of Khost, to build a new school in the province. The school will provide education for students from seventh to twelfth grade.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Tokur, head of the delegation, stated that their goal is to establish a quality educational center in Khost where adolescents can complete their secondary and high school education in a suitable learning environment.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Taliban-appointed governor of Khost promised full cooperation to realize this project.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes amid widespread restrictions on the education of girls beyond the sixth grade in Afghanistan, a matter that has consistently drawn both domestic and international criticism. It is expected that any educational investment in the country will be managed in a way that guarantees fair access to education for all students, especially girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey and the Taliban agree to build a new school in Khost, aiming to provide education for grades 7 to 12 despite existing restrictions on girls&#8217; education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}