Showing posts with label Turkey school children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkey school children. Show all posts

Saturday, 13 December 2014

The slow return to the Ottoman Empire: How Turkey indoctrinates school children into Hardcore Islamism

The Turkish government is determined to make the youth more "devout."(Photo: Anadolu Agency)

Systematic Islamist indoctrination in Turkey is becoming less stealthy.

Education is the new battlefield. Turkey's government is pushing to advance its declared policy goal of "raising devout (Muslim) generations."

In 2012, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD] released the findings of its prestigious education report, the "Program for International Student Assessment" [PISA], which experts view as the world's most comprehensive education survey. PISA assesses the extent to which 15-year-old pupils from 65 OECD member nations have acquired key knowledge and skills in mathematics, reading, science and problem-solving (the PISA survey covers 510,000 students worldwide.)