Atatürk Government Model High School is a

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located in

Feni District Feni District () is a coastal Districts of Bangladesh, district situated in the south-east of Bangladesh, within Chittagong Division. One of Bangladesh's smallest districts, it is strategically located along the N1 (Bangladesh), Dhaka–Chittago ...

of Bangladesh. It is one of the oldest schools in the district. The school built on 8 acres of land is named after

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...

, the father of the nation and the first president of

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History

Mizanur Rahman, the then subdivisional officer of Feni, established this school on 6 January 1939 with the help of some local people. At the time of establishment it was named "Middle English School". After the establishment of the school, Jalaluddin Ahmad served as its headmaster until 1951. In 1981, Turkish foreign minister

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and the then Turkish ambassador to Bangladesh, Metin Serman, and on 24 December 1982, the Turkish president,

Kenan Evren Ahmet Kenan Evren (17 July 1917 – 9 May 2015) was a Turkish military officer and dictator who served as the seventh president of Turkey from 1980 to 1989. He assumed the post by leading the 1980 military coup. On 18 June 2014, a Turkish cou ...

, visited the school. Later a technical team sent to Bangladesh made recommendations to the president. Based on that recommendation, the

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donated for the construction of the school's new building. On 21 January 2016,

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promised as the prime minister of the country that her ministry will ensure government-funded educational institution for every

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and

upazila An ''upazila'' ( pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative division in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a borough of Western countries. Rural upazilas ...

s. Subsequently, the Atatürk Model High School was ordered to be nationalised through a notification issued on 11 April 2018.

Controversy

In 2017, Mubarak Hossain, the headmaster, was formally charged with the executive officer of

Daganbhuiyan Upazila Daganbhuiyan (, ) is an upazila (sub-district) of Feni District in the division of Chittagong, Bangladesh. It consists of one municipality and eight union parishads. Etymology During the reign of Mughal prince Shah Shuja, many officers and mi ...

by the guardian of a student accusing him of admission trading. According to a report of ''Hazarika Pratidin'', there are accusations of arbitrariness in the school administration against him. On 18 January 2021, in a human chain and protest program held by local residents in Daganbhuiyan, the protesters raised various allegations against him and demanded his resignation and called on the school administration to solve various problems of the school.

Notable alumni

* Abdul Awal Mintoo *

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References

External links

* {{Feni District Daganbhuiyan Upazila Schools in Bangladesh Educational institutions established in 1939 1939 establishments in British India Monuments and memorials to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Bangladesh–Turkey relations