Turkey Offers Refuge to Expelled Egyptian Students

By Amr EL-Tohamy. Before being dismissed from his university for his political activities on campus, 24-year-old Khalid had been a student in the faculty of dentistry at Egypt’s Mansoura University for four years. After looking into universities in China, Russia, and India, he headed to the Near East University (Yakın Doğu Üniversitesi) in the Turkish city of Lefkoşa to pursue his specialization, paying a fee of about 12,000 euros a year. More...