Erdogan accuses Darwin from the schools

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The theory of evolution does not in the case of radical believers of all denominations. But in the schools of all Nations in the curriculum. With one exception. So far. Because a second has now been added.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have signed the new curriculum, said the Supreme Board of education of the Turkish Ministry of education, Alpaslan Durmus, in Ankara. Thus, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution will disappear from 2019, from Turkish textbooks. The new curriculum will be presented with the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan on Tuesday.

According to the Turkish government, the theory of evolution for students is a controversial and complicated. Therefore, the Chapter should be removed from the biology classes of the ninth classes and by a new one called “living beings and their environment,” said Durmus. The theory of evolution is taught only at the University. Durmus spoke of a “simplification of the curriculum”.

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The largest Turkish opposition party CHP, as well as academics from several universities criticize the draft. The only country in which Darwinism is also from the curriculum, deleted, was Saudi Arabia. Creationism on the other hand, since the 80s in Turkish school books. According to a survey from 2012, 70 percent of the Turks to doubt the theory of evolution.

“Sharia Principles”

The CHP Deputy for Istanbul, Baris Yarkadas, accused the Islamic-conservative AKP, the country according to Islamic law principles govern. To remove “a proven theory from the curriculum is to respect Knowledge and science. The AKP government replaced them with a program, the Sharia principles it contains,” said Yarkadas. His party wants to contest the legal curriculum before the court.

Turkey is formally a secular state with freedom of religion, a legacy of the country’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1934). Secular Turks fear has long been an Islamization of both the curriculum as well as the society. Since the government of the ACP in 2003, the commencement of the headscarf ban was lifted, prohibited gambling and alcohol bans extended.

rb/uh (dpa, kna)