Özet:

Earthquakes have directly affected social life throughout human history. On February 6, 2023, two major earthquakes occurred, firstly (04:17, 7.7) in Gaziantep’s Şehitkamil district and then (13:24, 7.6) in Kahramanmaraş’s Ekinözü district. The World Health Organization has evaluated these earthquakes as “grade three emergencies”. The Republic of Turkey, on the other hand, declared a state of emergency for three months in ten provinces affected by earthquakes (… Malatya, Diyarbakır, Kilis, Şanlıurfa, Adıyaman, Hatay, Osmaniye and Adana). According to the most recent data (AFAD, February 12, 2023), 29,605 people died, 80,278 people are injured and the cities mentioned are destroyed. In accordance with the social order necessitated by the 2023 Gaziantep-Kahramanmaraş-centered earthquakes, disaster and emergency management has come into play in basic issues such as search and rescue, security, nutrition, shelter, transportation. Although not a priority, the education system has been one of the issues affected by this order: Education policies should be determined and applicated as an effective social state policy. In this letter to editor, the first regulations of the Ministry of National Education and the Council of Higher Education will be emphasized to draw attention to the impact of earthquakes on Turkish education policies. In line with our pioneering study on the “The impact of the new type Coronavirus on Turkish education policy practices”, all of these education policy practices will be compared in pre/post-pandemic periods.

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