Re-Educating Turkey, AKP Efforts to Promote Religious Values in Turkish Schools

To Turkish secularists, AKP efforts to increase the religious content of education are part of a broader campaign to impose religious values on society with the aims of eroding Turkey’s secular structure, loosening its ties with the West, and ultimately threatening secular lifestyles, not to mention securing the AKP’s political dominance, writes Center For American Progress Senior Fellow and Saint Andrew’s Freedom Forum Advisory Council member Alan Makovsky.https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2015/12/14/127089/re-educating-turkey/