{"id":48150,"date":"2010-10-30T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/10\/30\/info-class-on-religion-to-be-taught-in-all-turkish-schools\/"},"modified":"2010-10-30T10:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T10:56:00","slug":"info-class-on-religion-to-be-taught-in-all-turkish-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/10\/30\/info-class-on-religion-to-be-taught-in-all-turkish-schools.html","title":{"rendered":"Info Class on Religion to be Taught in All Turkish Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

A class on culture, which will include information on all religions, will be taught in schools next year, said Turkey’s State Minister Faruk \u00c7<\/span>elik, who has been the coordinator of the government’s Alevi initiative to solve the long-lasting problems of the country’s Alevi population, reports Today’s Zaman.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis will be a culture and information class that will include instruction on all religions. Children should know about what religion is even if they are atheists. <\/p>\n

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“With your support, we will make it possible to have such a class during the 2011-2012 school year. This is not religious education, this class is informational. Education and instruction will not be mixed,\u201d \u00c7<\/span>elik said yesterday, addressing more than 3,500 people at the Bostanc\u0131<\/span> Performance Center (BGM) where international leaders from Alevi organizations gathered for their fifth meeting under the leadership of Turkey’s Cem Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Alevis practice a form of Islam that distinguishes their worship from that of the Sunni Muslim majority. While there are no official figures on Turkey\u2019s Alevi population, estimates vary from 6 million to 15 million in the country, which has a population of more than 70 million. The Cem Foundation\u2019s head, Professor \u0130<\/span>zzettin Do\u011f<\/span>an, puts the figure as high as 30 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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