New York Times | In Turkey's New Curriculum, Ataturk, Darwin and Jihad Get Face-Lifts New York Times When high school students in Turkey arrive for the fall term, Charles Darwin will be conspicuously absent from biology classes. In elementary school religion classes, teachers will promote the nonviolent meaning of the word jihad — “to struggle” — as ... Turkey is Teaching Students About Evolution and Darwin for the Last Time Turkey Overhauls Darwin's Theory of Evolution From High School Textbooks |
BBC News | Turkey's new school year: Jihad in, evolution out BBC News Turkey's schools have begun the new academic year with a controversial curriculum that leaves out the theory of evolution and brings in the concept of jihad. For Turkey's Islamist-rooted government, the idea is for a new "education of values". Critics ... Uproar in Turkey over removing evolution from biology class |
U.S. News & World Report | APNewsBreak: US Nixes Proposal to Let Turkey Guards Buy Guns U.S. News & World Report In this Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017 photo made available Monday, Sept 18, 2017, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, acknowledges supporters as he arrives at his hotel in New York. Erdogan is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Letter: Turkey's democracy is complex The Trump administration cancels $1.2 million weapons deal with Turkey after president's security detail attacked ... How to Manage Post-Democracy Turkey |
Reuters | Turkish tanks drill on Iraqi border week before Kurdish vote Reuters The exercises came as Turkey, the central government in Baghdad and their shared neighbor Iran all stepped up protests and warnings about the looming plebiscite in semi-autonomous Kurdish northern Iraq. Iran, which like Turkey fears fuelling separatism ... The Latest: Turkey warns Kurds against 'artificial' state Turkey's Erdogan, Iraq's Abadi to discuss Iraqi Kurdish referendum Turkey Iraq |
Newsweek | Ancient Rome: Mass Grave Filled With Skeletons Baffles Archaeologists in Turkey Newsweek The skeletons of 24 people including one child were uncovered during excavations in the ancient city of Parion, formerly a part of Rome's vast eastern empire. The remains of the ancient urban center now lie in the Turkish administrative area of Biga ... |
POLITICO.eu | Suspicious abductions in Turkey raise fears of state role POLITICO.eu Opposition politicians put the number at eight, and Turkey's Human Rights Association, an independent NGO, said it had documented 10 cases as of last May. Another two abductions are alleged to have happened in June. All but one of the men remain ... |
Voice of America | Turkey Starts Trial of 30 Newspaper Staff for Links to Coup Attempt Voice of America Thirty journalists and newspaper executives from a Turkish newspaper which was shut down last year went on trial Monday, facing life sentences over charges that they had links to a failed coup attempt. The former employees of the Zaman newspaper are ... |
Channel 4 News | Orhan Pamuk: Turkey becoming 'increasingly authoritarian' Channel 4 News He's a giant of world literature, a master story-teller and a Nobel Prize winner. Turkish novelist Orhan Parmuk's books have sold more than 13 million copies and been translated into 63 languages. His latest, The Red Haired Woman, is a tale of a young ... |
Armenian Weekly | When Even the Dead Cannot Rest in Peace: Turkey's Intolerance toward the 'Other' Armenian Weekly Aysel Tuğluk, formerly a human rights activist, is a Member of Parliament for the province of Van in Turkey from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). Along with the two co-leaders of the party and 11 other fellow deputies, she was arrested ... |
Deutsche Welle | Turkey summons German ambassador as tensions mount Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) - Turkey summoned Germany's ambassador to its foreign ministry on Monday, Berlin said, amid a mounting row between the two NATO powers. Der Spiegel magazine said Ankara wanted to raise a German parliamentary motion last year ... Turkey summons German envoy for second time in two days Take Turkey's Kurdish group off the US terror list for good Turkey: Over 45 PKK terrorists neutralized in 1 week |