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By AFP
07 June 2024 | 4:37 p.m.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented Friday a caller acquisition programme promoting the household and motivation order, contempt protests
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP)Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented Friday a caller acquisition programme promoting the household and motivation order, contempt protests from teaching unions accusing him of Islamising education.
“The eventual purpose of these efforts is to bring up our children arsenic radical who respect morality, are courageous, willing, productive, compassionate, patriotic, blessed with captious sense, competent and virtuous and demonstrating spiritual integrity, with bosom and body,” Erdogan said.
He besides deed retired astatine the “global scourge” of sex ideology and said determination would beryllium caller lessons connected “politeness, manners and the household wrong the operation of Turkish society”.
Erdogan, who has often deed retired astatine LGBTQ rights groups, said determination would beryllium optional classes “on the beatified Koran, the prophet’s life” and different Islamic subjects.
Teaching unions called for a protestation connected Tuesday against the programme, which they said was “contrary to secularism, subject and antiauthoritarian teaching”.
“We telephone connected everyone to combat unneurotic for the rights and aboriginal of children,” Simge Yardim, committee subordinate of the Egitim-Sen union, wrote connected X.
The unions impeach the authorities of reducing teaching connected mathematics and subject and replacing it with classes connected Islam.
They kick that supposedly optional spiritual classes often go obligatory by default owed to a deficiency of different options.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented Friday a caller acquisition programme promoting the household and motivation order, contempt protests
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