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Gov’t bans 7th grade textbooks over pages on media freedom, corruption

by TurkeyPurge | Sep 21, 2017 | Today in Crackdown

The Turkish Education Ministry has issued a decision to immediately recall seventh grade social studies textbooks due to a page on press censorship by the government, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Thursday. According to the report, the ministry distributed...

Turkey destroys at least 1.8 million copies of textbooks over ‘suspicious content’

by TurkeyPurge | Dec 16, 2016 | Today in Crackdown

Turkey’s Education Ministry has destroyed at least 1.8 million copies of textbooks that mention the word “Pennsylvania,” or that include texts from government-targeted journalists, Birgün daily reported. Turkish government is proven anew to know no boundaries in...

Textbooks mentioning Milky Way galaxy face ban over name similarity with Gülen schools

by TurkeyPurge | Oct 9, 2016 | Today in Crackdown

An Education Ministry bureaucrat has suggested that the government might consider removing “Milky Way” phrase from textbooks in order to avoid resemblance with the names of the schools linked to the Gülen movement, which Turkey accuses of masterminding the July 15...

Turkey bans math textbooks due to questions including Gülen’s initials

by TurkeyPurge | Oct 6, 2016 | Today in Crackdown

Turkey’s paranoia over the Gülen movement has reached new heights with the government banning mathematics textbooks due to questions involving the initials of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. “A textbook was banned just because it features Gülen’s initials in a...

Gov’t bans 7th grade textbooks over pages on media freedom, corruption

Turkey destroys at least 1.8 million copies of textbooks over ‘suspicious content’

Textbooks mentioning Milky Way galaxy face ban over name similarity with Gülen schools

Turkey bans math textbooks due to questions including Gülen’s initials

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