July 23, 2024
While the schools affiliated to Turkish Maarif Foundation (TMF), which was established in 2016 as Türkiye's education and cultural diplomacy institution, stand out with their success stories, the concrete achievements of the students were published as ‘Maarif Success Stories’.
In the 8th year of its establishment, TMF, whose students in 52 countries from Pakistan to the USA, from Cameroon to Bosnia and Herzegovina, from Georgia to Australia, ranked first in national and international exams, competitions, science fairs, festivals, arts and sports activities, brought these achievements together in the book ‘Maarif Success Stories’.
International Maarif Schools affiliated to TMF, which set out with the aim of raising good people who will use science and technology for the benefit of humanity, are making a name for themselves with their in-school and out-of-school practices in the field of education.
The increasing demand of governments and societies for schools implementing the unique International Maarif Programme based on local national cultures and universal qualities has brought success stories.
TMF, which has opened 470 educational institutions in 52 countries in 6 continents and reached 53 thousand students in eight years, has brought together 140 examples of the most important student and school achievements in 160 pages, including ‘country, school, student name and exam name and score’.
The examples of achievements in the book cover a wide range from the first places achieved by Maarif students in high school and university entrance exams to the gold medals they won in national and international exams, arts, sports, culture, literature, technology festivals and science olympiads.
The book ‘Maarif Success Stories’, which draws attention as a work that reveals the impact created by TMF in the field of international education and the achievements of its students, documents the foundation's determined steps towards raising the leaders and successful individuals of the future.
Examples of success
The book includes various success stories of Maarif Schools students, including Ibrahim Qutaiba, who ranked first in 2023 in the High School Graduation Examination held throughout Iraq and settled in Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine in Ankara with the scholarship of the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB). Oras Hirori, a student of International Maarif Schools in Erbil, Iraq, also came first in the tennis tournament organised across the country in July 2023.
Kosovo International Maarif Schools was among the schools that won the most medals and awards in the July 2023 STEM Science Olympics held in Paris. Grade 7 student Kushtrim Kajoshi ranked second in the world in the science category, while 6 students received gold, silver and bronze medals in coding, science and maths.
Seyitova Adelya Elimirbekovna, a 2023 graduate of Kyrgyzstan Maarif Schools, ranked third in the country in the higher education entrance exam and received her award from Kyrgyz President Sadır Caparov.
Andia Jusufati and Iva Marko, 10th grade students from the Albanian Maarif Schools family, who competed with students from all over the world at the Owlypia Global Competition at Harvard University with the main theme of innovation, received gold medals; Brian Habibaj received silver medal, Anxhelo Gjovashi and Jon Karapanxho received bronze medals.
In Ethiopia, Fethiye Eshak, a student of Ethiopian Maarif School, was selected as the best debater of the country in the 2023 debate competition in which 9 states participated.
Cameroon Maarif Schools student Amogoui Mbide Eliette Ciarap ranked first in the Cameroon 2022 Secondary School Leaving Examination and Steve Ryder Nana Fokou ranked fourth.
In the 2022 BAC exam held in Mali, Mali Maarif Schools student Neissa Alıdou ranked second in the country and Fatoumata Tatcher Traore ranked third in the country.
At the ISEF, the world's most comprehensive international science and engineering fair held in the USA in 2022 with the participation of more than 1800 students from 63 countries, Pak-Turk Maarif School's Karachi Girls' High School 12th grade students Talia Gülsüm and Umre Gülsüm won the world first place in the field of physics with their project to produce environmentally friendly leather from Himalayan cedar wood.
In the Educational Aptitude Test (SAT) exam held in the USA in 2023, Ayşe Kaplan, a student at the Maarif School in New Jersey, scored 780 out of a total score of 800, and Semanur Kılıç scored 760, placing her in the 1st percentile in the USA.
Aminata Dieye, a student of Senegal Maarif Schools, ranked first in the country in the field of English in Concours General, one of the most prestigious exams of the country, in June 2023 and received her award from then President Macky Sall.
Tesnim Maksumic, a 4th grade student of Sarajevo International Maarif Schools, won first place in 5 branches at the Bosnia and Herzegovina Swimming Winter State Championship held on 17 March 2024. Maksumic became the state champion of Bosnia and Herzegovina with his extraordinary success by winning the first medals in the 50 metre butterfly, 50 metre freestyle, 100 metre backstroke, 100 metre freestyle and 100 metre butterfly categories.
The Romanian Bucharest Maarif School debate team participated in the International Debating Competition in Dubai in October 2022. Students Cezara Toader and Mariam Bechnak won the best speaker award.
Khalid Muhammed Sidi Ahmet, a scholarship student at Mauritania Maarif Şehit Furkan Akyol Boys' High School, ranked first in the country in the high school graduation exam and chose the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Health Sciences in Türkiye for higher education.
