In official Turkish textbooks, apart from a blatant hostility towards America, there is also justification for jihad and terrorist attacks by Islamists. The education minister made it clear: “Jihad is simply part of our religion. It is deliberately misrepresented by enemies of Islam and is actually a good thing.
Two out of twelve official history books in Turkey contain questionable content. This was revealed by the exiled Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt in the Middle East Forum.
The holy war against infidels, for example, is romanticised. However, it is America that is most often criticised. America is said to have been partly responsible for 9/11. In 2017, the Turkish Ministry of Education decided to include jihad in the curriculum. “Jihad is an element of our religion, it is part of our religion,” said the then Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz at the presentation of the new national curriculum.
Erdogan’s AKP party has been in power since 2002 and is increasingly transforming the formerly secular Turkish state into an Islamic country. Special attention is being paid to the Islamic education of the new generation. The secular Turkish opposition expressed concern about the new curriculum.
“By enshrining a jihadist values education, they are trying to contaminate the brains of our young children with the same understanding that is turning the Middle East into a bloodbath,” said Bulent Tezcan of the secular opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). The AKP government is “raising a generation of future militia leaders”.
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