by TurkeyPurge | Feb 4, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Yamanlar College, a private school established by educators affiliated with the Gülen movement in the western province of İzmir, has been turned into a religious vocational school, part of a group known as “imam-hatip” high schools. The library of the school was...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 20, 2017 | Hate Speech
An obtrusive recording revealed that a teacher working at a Turkish gov’t-funded religious school in Albania converses with a student about how the ISIL militants seek to “provide protection to the Muslim people of Syria, Palestine, and Egypt.” During his...
by TurkeyPurge | Jan 15, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Turkey’s Education Ministry is in the process of including the concept of jihad in compulsory school curricula, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday. Speaking during a press conference on Friday, Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz explained the details of the new...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 25, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A private dormitory in Sakarya that was confiscated by the government as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement has been turned into a religious vocational school, locally known as an imam-hatip. The government took over the Erimez Men’s Dormitory in...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 12, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
A private school affiliated with the Gülen movement in the southeastern province of Adıyaman has been turned into a religious vocational school, part of a group known as “imam-hatip” high schools. Turkish authorities connected to the Adıyaman Governor’s Office hung a...