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1.       Mushin
71 posts
 27 Jul 2017 Thu 05:04 pm

Evolution will no longer be taught in Turkish schools, a senior education official has said, in a move likely to raise the ire of the country’s secular opposition.

Alpaslan Durmuş, who chairs the board of education, said evolution was debatable, controversial and too complicated for students.

“We believe that these subjects are beyond their [students] comprehension,” said Durmuş in a video published on the education ministry’s website.

Durmuş said a chapter on evolution was being removed from ninth grade biology course books, and the subject postponed to the undergraduate period. Another change to the curriculum may reduce the amount of time that students spend studying the legacy of secularism.

Critics of the government believe public life is being increasingly stripped of the secular traditions instilled by the nation’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

The secular opposition has long argued that the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is pursuing a covert Islamist agenda contrary to the republic’s founding values. Education is a particularly contentious avenue, because of its potential in shaping future generations. Small-scale protests by parents in local schools have opposed the way religion is taught.

There is little acceptance of evolution as a concept among mainstream Muslim clerics in the Middle East, who believe it contradicts the story of creation in scripture, in which God breathed life into the first man, Adam, after shaping him from clay. Still, evolution is briefly taught in many high school biology courses in the region.

 

Source: theguardian



Edited (7/30/2017) by Mushin [Title has been renamed]
Edited (8/1/2017) by Mushin

2.       Mushin
71 posts
 30 Jul 2017 Sun 12:04 pm

No wikipedia in Turkey since April 2017.

 

This is like not allowing your kid to go to school because you think there are some inadequate things (in your opinion) written on a clipboard in that school.

 

3.       Mushin
71 posts
 01 Aug 2017 Tue 10:32 am

Turkish schools to teach children the ´concept of JIHAD´

4.       Mushin
71 posts
 05 Jan 2018 Fri 04:09 pm

 

Quoting Mushin

No wikipedia in Turkey since April 2017.

 

This is like not allowing your kid to go to school because you think there are some inadequate things (in your opinion) written on a clipboard in that school.

 

 

I had completely forgot about wikipedia. I gave it a try to it today and to my surprise, it worked. I can access to wikipedia again...

 

I don´t know if it will stay to be accessible or it is a temporary thing as a result of a mistake by authorities.

 

How embarassing for Turkey...

 

5.       harp00n
3993 posts
 05 Jan 2018 Fri 07:37 pm

www.0wikipedia.com

 

Try it...

6.       harp00n
3993 posts
 05 Jan 2018 Fri 07:37 pm

www.0wikipedia.com

 

Try it...

7.       Mushin
71 posts
 06 Jan 2018 Sat 10:25 am

 

Quoting harp00n

www.0wikipedia.com

 

Try it...

 

Currently it´s still working. No need to put someone in the middle when a direct access is available.

8.       Leo S
183 posts
 08 Jan 2018 Mon 11:57 am

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Edited (1/8/2018) by Leo S [wrong thread]

9.       Mushin
71 posts
 26 Feb 2018 Mon 12:19 pm

A court has decided some words believed to be deragotory for women be removed from TDK dictionary.

 

Weird thing is the decison was taken with 2 votes by 2 men versus 1 vote by a woman of the court.

 

Turkish text of the news as follows:

Halkevleri Eşbaşkanı Dilşat Aktaş, 2015’te TDK’nın yayınladığı Türkçe sözlüklerde ve internet sayfasında, ‘müsait’, ‘boyalı’, ‘yollu’, ‘taze’, ‘kötüleşmek’, ‘oynak’, ‘kötü yola düşmek’, ‘teslim etmek’, ‘esnaf’, ‘serbest’ gibi kelimelerin argo anlamlarının cinsiyet ayrımcılığına dayalı aşağılayıcı ve küçük düşürücü ifadeler içerdiğini belirterek, argo karşılıkların sözlükten çıkarılmasını talep etti.

TDK, başvuruyu reddetti. Aktaş da avukatı Sevinç Hocaoğulları aracılığıyla TDK’nın ret kararının iptali için Ankara 6. İdare Mahkemesi’ne dava açtı.

Mahkeme oy çokluğuyla, bu sözcüklerin argo anlamlarının sözlükten çıkarılmasına karar verdi. Kararda, “Toplumsal cinsiyetçilik içeren kelime yapılarına çalışmalarında yer vermemesi, davalı idarenin uluslararası ve ulusal normlardan kaynaklanan görevidir.

Dava konusu kelimelerin argo anlamlarının, Türkçe’nin ticari hayatta, kitle iletişim araçlarında, eğitim ve öğretim kurumlarında ve sosyal hayatın diğer alanlarında doğru ve güzel kullanılması hususunda öncü görevi üstlenen Türk Dil Kurumu’nun sözlüğünde ve internet sayfasında yer almasının hukuka uygun olmadığı sonucuna varılmıştır” denildi.

KADIN ÜYE KARŞI ÇIKTI

Mahkemenin iki erkek üyesi kadını aşağıladığı, küçük düşürdüğü savunulan argo anlamların sözlüklerden çıkarılması yönünde oy kullanırken, mahkemenin kadın üyesi ise karşı çıkarak karşı oy yazısı yazdı.

Kadın üye, karşı oy yazısında “Bu ifadelerin kadınlara ayrımcılık yapmak gibi veya söz konusu ifadeler ile kadına şiddet uygulanmasına zemin hazırlanması gibi bir amaç güdülmediğinden tesis edilen dava konusu işlemde hukuka aykırılık bulunmadığı görüşü ile aksi yönde oluşan çoğunluk kararına katılmıyorum” dedi.

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