Yunus Emre Institute started accelerated Turkish courses for high-ranking police officers who graduated from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Baghdad University, at the Languages Institute of the Iraqi Ministry of Internal Affairs in Baghdad. Within the scope of this cooperation, the aim of teaching Turkish to all border police and customs guards of the Iraqi state comes to the fore with Turkish lessons that will continue with new classes to be opened in March.

In order to increase cultural interaction and encourage language learning, Yunus Emre Institute, in cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of Internal Affairs, provides Turkish lessons to high-ranking police officers who graduated from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Baghdad University, to help high-ranking police officers improve their communication skills and learn the Turkish language more effectively.

Yunus Emre Institute Baghdad Coordinator Ahmet Can Turgut used the following expressions on the subject: “This project, which we started in cooperation with our Institute and the Iraqi Ministry of Internal Affairs, is an indication of the friendship and determination to work together between Türkiye and Iraq. Learning Turkish by border police and customs guards will contribute to further strengthening cooperation and communication with our border neighbor, Iraq."

Director of the Languages Institute of the Iraqi Ministry of Internal Affairs, Brigadier General Dr. İsmail Daoud Salomi expressed his opinions about the cooperation as follows:

"We have successfully reached an agreement between Baghdad Yunus Emre Institute and the Iraqi Ministry of Internal Affairs Languages Institute to provide Turkish lessons to Iraqi officers and high-ranking personnel. We started the lessons under the supervision of teachers within the Institute, and we will continue our cooperation by increasing the number of courses in the future."

This collaboration shows that Yunus Emre Institute continues to support the dissemination of Turkish culture and encourage the teaching of the Turkish language. It is planned that high-ranking police officers who learn Turkish will gain the language skills necessary to carry out border security and customs procedures more effectively.

“We learned topics about Turkish grammar. We have high faith that this education will open new areas for us and contribute a lot. I would like to thank Yunus Emre Institute and our qualified teachers for providing us with this opportunity.” Major Muhammed Abdulkadir, who attended the training, said.

Yunus Emre Institute continues to strengthen cultural relations between Türkiye and Iraq with this cooperation.