[lbo-talk] Erdogan Islamizes education system to raise 'devout youth'

Mike Ballard mbbtraven5 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 16:33:28 PST 2014


To paint a thorough picture of the existing situation, one has to recall also a number of crucial steps taken in autumn 2014 to Islamize education in line with the Sunni faith. First, at the beginning of this school year, a considerable number of conventional secondary and high schools were transformed into imam-hatip secondary and high schools, which provide mostly religious education, without the consent of students and parents.

According to statistics provided at the National Education Council by Kamuran Karaca, head of the left-leaning Education and Science Laborers Trade Union, the number of imam-hatip secondary schools rose from 1,099 in 2013 to 1,355 in 2014. Including the separate imam-hatip classes formed inside conventional secondary schools, the number of secondary imam-hatip students rose from 94,000 to 240,000 in the past year. During 2011-14, the Ministry of National Education converted 1,447 general high schools to imam-hatip schools.

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/12/turkey-islamize-education-religion.html?utm_source=Al-Monitor+Newsletter+%5BEnglish%5D&utm_campaign=42589445e7-December_10_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_28264b27a0-42589445e7-102428125#ixzz3LXqDsR9A

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