Ethiopian youth are showing great interest in a Turkish studies project launched by the Yunus Emre Institute and there is huge demand for additional courses. Three major learning institutions -- Addis Ababa, Wollo and Mekelle universities -- have been taking part in the project since March, teaching Turkish to 900 Ethiopian students, and there are plans to extend it due to strong demand. Emine Ciftci, who works as a lecturer at Wollo University, told an Anadolu Agency correspondent that she has taught the Turkish language to 470 people. "All of my students are studying engineering and are eager to learn Turkish because they plan to work with Turkish companies in Ethiopia. They believe that knowing Turkish will help them get into the business easily," she said. Ciftci said the hospitality of Ethiopians and their keen interest in the language are helpful to her work and stay in the country. Kubilay Han Kalkan, a Turkish lecturer at Addis Ababa University, said they registered 110 students for this academic year because they have a limited number of classes dedicated to the project. ''There is huge additional demand for the courses. We always have new students registering for the next class,'' he said. The Yunus Emre Institute’s goal is to promote Turkish language and culture to people living thousands of kilometers away from Ankara, Kalkan said, adding his department will accept a higher number of students next year. Hussein Idris, a graduate student of sociology at Addis Ababa University, said he is very happy to be doing well with his Turkish lessons and hopes to pursue his graduate studies in Turkey. He expressed his love for Turkey and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying he closely follows news about Turkey and Erdogan. "May Allah grant a long life to Erdogan. I always pray for him. I want Turkey to have a strong relationship with the Horn of African countries Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea," he said. Yildiz Cetin, a Turkish lecturer at Mekelle University, said they are teaching Turkish to 320 students this semester. "The lessons are very productive. Students from departments like law, accounting and social sciences are taking our courses." Cetin said the students have already learned about Turkish culture from Turkish drama series and there is growing demand to be allowed to celebrate Turkish Day at the college. "There is an amazing level of interest from the students, and we are trying to meet the demand. Students are competing to visit Turkey and attend summer school," he added. The Yunus Emre Institute has launched Turkish studies projects in 46 countries and at 85 universities. Eighty-five Turkish academicians are working with the projects and taught 4,785 people Turkish last year. The institute is planning to enable successful students to take summer courses in Turkey. https://aa.com.tr/en/africa/ethiopian-students-keen-on-learning-turkish/1098003

Garoowe looks much better than I imagined.

Not really unless you want to throw Oromia and Afaria under the bus. The seaway belongs to other "qowmiyado". The closes Habeshia access to the sea for Axum, Makelle and other Habeshia heartland will be in Eritrea. Habeshia may still claim they won Berbera (20%) but their investment will be worthless by then.

If they are Houthis, they are not welcome in Somaliland since Somaliland is now allied with the UAE which is battling the Houthis.

It appears billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk is taking #deletefacebook seriously. During a tweetstorm on Friday, Musk nonchalantly erased Tesla and SpaceX's Facebook accounts. The abrupt move came after a Twitter user urged him to delete his company's accounts from the world's most popular social media platform. Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk abruptly deleted the Facebook pages for his companies SpaceX and Tesla on Friday afternoon. The move came after he tweeted: 'What's Facebook?' Both pages had roughly 2.6 billion 'likes' but had been deleted as of this afternoon. It also appears that Musk has removed Tesla subsidiary Solar City's Facebook page unprompted. Musk admitted that he didn't realize SpaceX or Tesla had a Facebook page, saying he has 'literally never seen it even once.' A follower told Musk he should delete the accounts if he was 'the man.' Another user then sent him a screenshot of Tesla's Facebook account saying 'This should be deleted too right?' To that, Musk responded: 'Definitely. Looks lame anyway.' It looks like Musk's Instagram account, which counts 6.9 million followers, is here to stay, however. Several Twitter users asked him if he would be deleting his personal Instagram account, considering that the social media platform is owned by Facebook. He said Instagram is 'probably OK' but that deleting SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City's Facebook accounts was an easy decision, given that he 'doesn't use [Facebook] and never has.' That said, Musk tweeted that he believes Facebook's influence has been slowly 'creeping in' to Instagram. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5537403/Is-Elon-Musk-abruptly-DELETES-SpaceX-Teslas-Facebook-accounts.html#ixzz5AbTQBWex

400 billion dollar fake investment. This is more than a joke my friends. Saudi Arabia is not going to invest 400 billion dollars in the US. This is all to make Trump's ego boosted for re-election and to change Saudi Arabia's image in the US. The Prince dude should stick with speaking in Arabic. He sounds like a fool in that clip.

Cajiib. Giraantu ha wareegto.

Suldaanka, Gooni is actually a very intelligent man. Gooni is heavily misguided in his unrelenting support for Siyaad Barre, but the man is deeply intelligent.

Ahmed Hassan is Suldaanka?

As Galbeedi said, the anarchists and terrorists who want to hold the country hostage must be dealt with firmly.

Trump just imposed today 50 billion dollar tariffs on 1000 Chinese products coming to the US. America is feeling insecure. We have a trade war in our hands.

It is amazing the length people would go to benefit from anarchy and lawlessness. An entire generation is lost.

Is that all that the good professor is looking for? Someone to make him a minister? Isn't that sad?

UAE is working hard to destabilize the country. This is just a small test. Its mercenaries are ready.

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That is probably the UAE scouting for their permanent base. Gotta clear any potential "enemies" first.

And what do the white Aryans think of his big Jewish nose and dark complexion?

When will we see action against the enemy terrorists?

Finally, a greater Somali unity is in the works. On another point, our good friend OO was hoping his connection to Berbera would only be through a small road. Little did he know a massive bridge is required to connect to our ports. Better make peace with Eritrea I say. The Habesha there are not going anywhere.

OO is very valuable. Most SOLers are slowly understanding the value of having a different opinion removed from our Somali bubble.

Mooge is Puntland "nationalist". His job is to hide any negative news out of the Kingdom.

Thanks Galbeedi. Turkey is developing fast.

I am not surprised at all. He was a violently insane person. Not that Christians are like that, but "wax walba ka filo" kind of guy.