Corruption matters aside, I honestly think choosing a non-standard technology is a good move. Reading the news article, you see that the students mentioned are in trade schools. Turkey needs the trade school students to continue doing trades (there's a shortage of tradespeople), so it would make no sense flooding the javascript/c#/python developer market with trade schoolers now thinking they might make lots of more money despite not having any training on software development. We already have enough lemons in the developer market as it is.
So if they learn Delphi, they can use some software automation to make their jobs easier, and they can easily learn another language if they turn out to be really good at this new thing. After learning an OOP language, learning a new one takes at most a week.
Honestly, they could maybe start a desktop app start-up.
The web craze hasn't infected the entire planet (yet), and there's many small companies that require different tools and can't afford the big name packages or they can't find something matching their requirements.
It's an interesting concept. Flood the market with Delphi programmers, then companies will accept Delphi solutions, and start asking for them too. But also the good programmers won't leave the country because outside of Turkey nobody is asking for Delphi.
So if they learn Delphi, they can use some software automation to make their jobs easier, and they can easily learn another language if they turn out to be really good at this new thing. After learning an OOP language, learning a new one takes at most a week.