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In the bull’s eye: Turkish, not Saudi, schoolbooks

In the bull’s eye: Turkish, not Saudi, schoolbooks

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Mar 20, 2021
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In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the bull’s eye of criticism of supremacist and intolerant curricula in the Muslim world.

Once  a model of secularism with an education system that taught evolution, cultural openness, and tolerance towards minorities that included Kurdish as a minority language, Turkish curricula ha…

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