The Taliban regime, which continues to back down on the promises made in 2021, is cutting itself off a little more from its few interlocutors. The ban on Afghan women from going to university, decided on Tuesday by the Taliban regime, is a decision “neither Muslim nor humane”, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday.
“This prohibition is neither Muslim nor humane. We reject this ban, we don’t believe it is fair. Let’s hope, God willing, that they will renounce this decision,” the minister declared during a press conference. “How does the education of women hurt humanity? asked Mevlut Cavusoglu. Turkey, whose majority population is Muslim, is the only NATO member country to have kept an open embassy in Kabul since the Taliban came to power in August 2021.
This decision had already been widely condemned by the international community, in particular in the United States and in Germany, where Berlin announced that it wanted to seize the G7 of the question. In France, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced a “deeply shocking” decision, which “comes to be added to the list of innumerable violations and restrictions on the rights and fundamental freedoms of Afghan women pronounced by the Taliban”.