Pakistan has ordered more than 100 Turkish teachers and their family members to leave the country by November 20, in an apparent move to “please” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who starts his two-day visit to Islamabad today.
According to the interior ministry, the teachers of Pak-Turk schools have been asked to leave the country along with their family members within three days.
Some 108 Turkish teachers have been serving in the Pak-Turk Schools in the country. They along with their family have been denied extension to their visas on the request of the Erdogan administration as these schools were run by US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen whom Erdogan blamed for July’s failed military coup.