Erdogan prepares law that will teach children in school about the “Blue Homeland” and the Koran

Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government is preparing a law that would teach school children about the “Blue Fatherland” and the Koran, prompting a backlash from Turkey's opposition. According to a report by the Greek edition of Deutsche Welle, the main opposition Republican People's Party (RPK) has completely rejected the new curriculum for compulsory primary and secondary education in Turkey, which is at the stage of public consultation. High-ranking officials and MPs of the party held a protest march from the Turkish National Assembly to the Ministry of National Education. “We have come to express our rejection of this educational model, which was drawn up behind closed doors and which they are imposing on Turkey as the 'Educational Model of the Century of Turkey' in the service of their own ideological obsessions,” said PLK Vice President Swat Ozzandas. “What our children need is scientific, secular and modern education. Lesson for the “Blue Homeland” However, since the day the AKP took power, every minister of education has aimed to remove education from its national character and link it with religious and reactionary thoughts. “The […]
Source: News Beast

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