They're still technically free in Russia, too, though you may be expected to make a contribution/bribe (because teachers and doctors earn virtually nothing, not because they're venal). I paid a whopping $5 for an operation on my infected lower gum.
Chris Doss The Russia Journal ------------------
Hakki said---
Free education and health care is a rule with all statist and socialist systems, though quality may vary. I don't see anything surprising there. Tuition fees are a recent phenomenon in Turkey (which started to privatize/globalize in 1983) and every year there are student demos against them. The fees go up and the quality of education keeps plummeting regardless, even in the private U's (where fees rival those in the US). College education is mostly free in the EU too.
The links work, just tried em.