After last year’s coup attempt in Turkey, she was put under investigation. “The government has an agenda for education because affecting the minds of youth is of the utmost importance to them,” Kazancı said. We are moderates,” said Ismet Yılmaz, the education minister, at a recent press conference introducing and defending the education reforms. But Usluer, the opposition MP, argued that the changes were just one step in an attempt at a wholesale transformation of society that aimed to raise a devout generation. “They want to impose their own ideologies on children.”“Erdoğan said he wanted a religious, devout generation, and these changes are made for this wish,” she added.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2017 03:56 UTC