{"id":20151,"date":"2018-09-21T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/?p=20151"},"modified":"2018-09-20T21:03:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T18:03:09","slug":"turkish-education-same-old-religious-obsession-only-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/?p=20151","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Education: Same Old Religious Obsession, Only Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>by <\/b><b>Burak Bekdil*<\/b><b><br \/>\nSeptember 19, 2018 at 5:00 am<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In 2017, Turkey stopped teaching evolution at secondary school: for extremists, Darwinism remains a taboo subject. Instead, school textbooks started teaching Turkish pupils &#8220;jihad.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A good school, according to extremists, is not where science is taught at universal standards; it is where pious students grow.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Turkey&#8217;s Higher Education Board in 2016 asked 1,577 university deans (reportedly every dean in the country) to resign &#8220;for the sake of democracy.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20152 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/yildirim1-1024x876.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/yildirim1-1024x876.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/yildirim1-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/yildirim1-768x657.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onisilos.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/yildirim1.jpg 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Secular Turks were shocked when Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m, then Minister of Transport, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyet.com.tr\/bu-sozler-sosyal-medyayi-salladi-22471573\">explained<\/a> to an interviewer why, in his youth, he changed his choice of university:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;I visited Bogazici University and saw that girl and boy students were sitting together&#8230; I feared I could go astray. And I decided to attend the technical university.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m who later became President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s choice for prime minister now serves as parliament speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is not surprising that for Turkey&#8217;s extremists, governance broadly means the Islamization of everything, including education at every level. In a 2017 speech, Erdo\u011fan boasted that, after his Justice and Development Party came to power, the number of students at the religious <i>imam hatip<\/i> schools <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yenicaggazetesi.com.tr\/erdogan-hamdolsun-1-milyon-300-bin-imam-hatipli-var-173821h.htm\">rose<\/a> from 60,000 to 1.3 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Unsurprisingly, Erdo\u011fan has often declared his political ambition not as raising honest, well-educated, free minds, but as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-40384471\">raising pious generations<\/a>.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A good school, according to extremists, is not where science is taught at universal standards; it is where pious students grow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/14747731.2017.1325170\">2017 study<\/a>, Deniz Kandiyoti and Z\u00fchre Emanet, two scholars at the University of London, wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;The drastic transformation of Turkey&#8217;s educational landscape under Justice and Development Party (AKP) presents an exemplary case study of the embeddedness of the freedom to think, write and teach in the vagaries of systems of governance.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In 2017, Turkey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/turkey-evolution-secondary-school-education-national-curriculum-recep-tayyip-erdogan-regime-a7804016.html\">stopped teaching evolution<\/a> at secondary school: for extremist Muslims, Darwinism remains a taboo subject. Instead, school textbooks started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-41296714\">teaching Turkish pupils &#8220;jihad.&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s efforts to Islamize education even further have not ceased. Most recently, on September 10, the Education Ministry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/removal-of-co-education-clause-from-turkish-education-ministrys-regulations-stirs-debate-136765\">removed the co-education clause<\/a> from its regulations, causing fears that the move could lay the groundwork for gender-segregated education on a wider scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Turkey&#8217;s Higher Education Board, widely viewed as a council used by governments to shape education policies that reflect partisan political agendas, in 2016 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.master-and-more.eu\/en\/news-detail\/news\/higher-education-in-turkey-after-the-coup-attempt\/\">asked <\/a>1,577 university deans (<a href=\"https:\/\/wenr.wes.org\/2017\/04\/education-in-turkey\">reportedly<\/a> every dean in the country) to resign &#8220;for the sake of democracy.&#8221; According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/wenr.wes.org\/2017\/04\/education-in-turkey\">report<\/a> by World Education News + Reviews:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;Turkey&#8217;s current crackdown on academic freedoms poses steep barriers to growth, as does its rocky relationship with the EU. At stake are not only student flows, but international research cooperation, financial aid, and other issues central to the quality and reputation of the Turkish education system at large.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s obsession about ever more religious education has transformed Turkish universities into blocks of buildings with a library, a mosque and hundreds of thousands of conservative Muslim students, run by pious academics and academic boards. Erdo\u011fan has the power to appoint the presidents of 200 or so Turkish universities. Piousness, however, does not bring academic success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/student\/where-to-study\/study-in-turkey\">According<\/a> to <i>The Times<\/i> Higher Education&#8217;s World University Rankings, Turkey, with a population of 80 million people, has only 22 universities in the top 1,000 list, with the best one ranking only in the 301-350 bracket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Turkish academia, however, has its own success stories to please Erdo\u011fan and his choice of hundreds of university presidents. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sozcu.com.tr\/2018\/yazarlar\/soner-yalcin\/dunya-birincisiyiz-2623363\/\">study<\/a> by Rice University involving 22,525 scholars worldwide and measuring piety in academia, Turkish lecturers appeared to be the most religious. A total of 609 Turkish scientists in the fields of physics and biology participated in the study: 85% of them confirmed that they believe in God while 63% said they prayed often.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is no wonder why Turkey does not have a single Ivy League-level university. Turks, however, do not seem unhappy that their schools are not world-class, so long as their students, scholars and university presidents are pious.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><i>*Burak Bekdil, one of Turkey&#8217;s leading journalists, was recently fired from the country&#8217;s most noted newspaper after 29 years, for writing in Gatestone what is taking place in Turkey. He is a Fellow at the Middle East Forum.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><i>source:https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/13002\/turkey-education-religion<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Burak Bekdil* September 19, 2018 at 5:00 am In 2017, Turkey stopped teaching evolution at secondary school: for extremists, Darwinism remains a taboo subject. 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