Turkey employs 20,000 new teachers before new school year

At a ceremony at the Presidential Complex on Thursday, Turkey's President Recep Tayip Erdogan has announced the employment of 20 thousand teachers, while promising more financial support for educators.

And according to Turkish media, it conveys Telegrafi, teachers learned their post at the ceremony through electronic lots.

Employment comes 11 days before the start of a new school year for millions of students.

With young recruits, the Turkish media highlighted, the number of teachers in Turkey has now exceeded 1 million.

Erdogan said it was an important development, citing that the number of teachers in Turkey was only around 526,000 about two decades ago, before his Justice and Development Party (BiH) The AK Party would win the first election.

Erdogan has even said that women make up 60% of the country's teachers, praising that the AK Party ended “inaccuracy” that women teachers faced, especially in the period ahead of and after the 1997 coup, when headmistry teachers were expelled from the public sector.

“None of our civil servants are forced to make a choice between career and their faiths”, the Turkish president was quoted as saying.

Teaching is one of the most popular professions in the country, although wages have long been relatively low for those working in public schools.