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...
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...
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...
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...
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