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by Burak Bekdil • September 19,
2018 at 5:00 am
- In 2017, Turkey
stopped teaching evolution at secondary school: for
extremists, Darwinism remains a taboo subject. Instead, school
textbooks started teaching Turkish pupils "jihad."
- A good school,
according to extremists, is not where science is taught at
universal standards; it is where pious students grow.
- Turkey's Higher
Education Board in 2016 asked 1,577 university deans
(reportedly every dean in the country) to resign "for the
sake of democracy."
Secular
Turks were shocked when Binali Yıldırım, then Minister of
Transport, explained that in his youth, he changed his choice of
university to avoid a school where male and female students sat
together. (Photo by Erhan Ortac/Getty Images)
Secular Turks were shocked when Binali Yıldırım,
then Minister of Transport, explained to an interviewer why, in his
youth, he changed his choice of university:
"I visited Bogazici University and saw that
girl and boy students were sitting together... I feared I could go
astray. And I decided to attend the technical university."
Yıldırım who later became President Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan's choice for prime minister now serves as parliament
speaker.
It is not surprising that for Turkey's extremists,
governance broadly means the Islamization of everything, including
education at every level. In a 2017 speech, Erdoğan boasted that,
after his Justice and Development Party came to power, the number
of students at the religious imam hatip schools rose from
60,000 to 1.3 million.
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