He argued that the problem is structural and includes insufficient qualified teachers and an outdated curriculum.
"Families who can afford it are enrolling their children in private institutions or foreign schools with hopes for a good education and future," while the ordinary citizen has to put up with frequent changes to the system that parents and students alike are not comprehending, Demirtas noted.
However, the poor scores at the university exams are certainly a result of the fact that Turks do not read, at least not a great number of volumes in their entire lifetime, revealed by surveys.
According to the latest study conducted nationwide by the ministry of education, 66 percent of Turkish students scored "mediocre" or below in reading comprehension.
The poor reading scores were revealed by the results of the Monitoring and Evaluating Academic Skills (ABIDE) project, carried out on some 116,000 pupils across the country.
The project also demonstrated that Turkish students proved to be inadequate in performing the most basic operations in mathematics.
The findings were in line with those of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) which in 2017 reported that Turkey ranked 49th in mathematics, 52nd in sciences and 50th in reading among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.
A comparison of Turkey's scores in PISA in 2017, 2017 and 2017 point to a downward trend in almost all fields.
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