UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith Met Our Students Under the Theme of Combating Extremism

UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith Met Our Students Under the Theme of "Combating Extremism".

At a meeting held at our University on Monday, 5 January 2009, UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith met with 10 Bahçeşehir University students. At the meeting, held within the scope of the Combating Extremism Program, whose foundations were laid with UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband's visit to Bahçeşehir University 15 months ago and which has been successfully carried out since then, Smith answered the students' questions. Following this half-hour conversation, a reception was held with the participation of academics from other universities and Bahçeşehir University and a delegation from the British Consulate.

According to Smith, the union's most important function is the important steps it takes towards combating extremism, eliminating the ideas that isolate and poison these women, and unleashing these women's potential.

UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith once again underlined the great importance of the United Kingdom and Türkiye working together on this issue. Describing the program carried out at Bahçeşehir University as "a source of pride", Smith concluded her remarks with the following thoughts about the Bahçeşehir University students she met: "In an ideal world we would not need such a program, but until that day comes we need every method we can use. I am fully confident that the capable, knowledgeable and self-assured young people I met here today will become successful ambassadors not only of your university but also of your country, and will play important roles in the fight against extremism and terrorism."