The official opposition of the country reacts to the draft law that is in the consultation stage. It also includes “Blue Homeland” and Koran lessons. The main opposition Republican People’s Party PKK has completely rejected the new curriculum for compulsory primary and secondary education in Turkey, which is in the public consultation stage. High-ranking officials and MPs of the party held a protest march from the Turkish National Assembly to the Ministry of National Education. “We have come to express our rejection of this educational model, which was drawn up behind closed doors and which they are imposing on Turkey as the ‘Educational Model of the Century of Turkey’ in the service of their own ideological obsessions,” said PLK Vice President Swat Ozzandas. “What our children need is scientific, secular and modern education.

And “Blue Homeland” lesson

However, since the day the AKP came to power, every education minister has aimed to remove education from its national character and associate it with religious and reactionary thoughts. “The new program is more of an anachronistic educational manifesto than a new curriculum plan,” they say to the opposition party and call for its abolition. The new curriculum includes the teaching of new doctrines, such as the Blue Homeland and the Sea of ​​Islands, however it is heavily criticized as an attempt to “Islamize” education and abolish the Kemalist secular educational model. And because it paves the way for the meddling of religious orders in the education system,

Critics of the government speak of “equating the educational program with vocational high schools for imams, where the Directorate of Religious Affairs has a strong say.” According to the new program, religious studies and learning Arabic will take up more space than courses in Turkish, Mathematics, Physics and Social Sciences. The theory of evolution of species will not be taught in the course of religion. Lessons on the life of the Prophet, Lessons on those who shaped the culture of Turkey and ethics will be included. and citizen’s education.