Tureckie ministerstwo edukacji wydało nowy podręcznik historii, który podżega do prześladowania chrześcijan. Książka przestrzega 13-letnich uczniów przed działalnością chrześcijańskich misjonarzy.
What type of religious education should a secular state provide in schools? This is a debate that Turkey has in common with most of the countries of Europe and Northern America.
Protestant churches in Turkey condemned Friday, December 12, the introduction of a school book by the Ministry of Education, which they say encourages discrimination of minority Christians, despite Western concerns over increased violence against the country's non-Muslims.
In its latest progress report, the European Union also criticized education materials, citing the negative portrayal of minorities such as Armenians, and said further work was needed to remove discriminatory language from textbooks. Turkey is still involved in a long process to join the EU.
Für Schlagzeilen in der Türkei sorgten auch angeblich ausländerfeindliche Passagen in einem deutschen Schulbuch. In dem Buch des Cornelsen-Verlags werde der Brandanschlag von Solingen gerechtfertigt, bei dem 1993 fünf Türken ums Leben gekommen waren, berichtete die regierungsnahe Zeitung „Zaman“.
In einem Arbeitsheft, das der Berliner Schulbuchverlag Cornelsen als Begleitmaterial zum Deutschbuch für die siebte Klasse herausgibt, findet sich eine Textpassage der Kinderbuchautorin Kirsten Boie, die nach Ansicht der „Hürriyet“ die Täter des Brandanschlags von Solingen 1993 entschuldigt und stattdessen den Opfern die Schuld daran gibt.
A controversial textbook passage that critics said justified a tragic arson attack which killed a Turkish family 15 years ago in the western German town of Solingen will be deleted in the book’s new edition, the German Embassy in Ankara announced yesterday.
A Turkish source reported to the Syrian opposition website Al-Hakikah that during his visit to Turkey, Syrian vice-premier 'Abadallah Al-Dardari agreed that the Syrian Education Ministry would make changes in the country's official schoolbooks.
The History Foundation is aiming to scan the books prepared for the new curriculum in a repetition of its 2002-2004 "Human Rights in School Books" project.
Islamische Religions-Lehrbücher sind in ihrem Bild vom Christentum weit mehr von Toleranz geprägt als manche Fachleute bislang vermutet haben. Zu dieser Erkenntnis kommt eine Studie des Erlanger Religionspädagogen Johannes Lähnemann.
Textbooks talk little about the events that began in 1915, and they emphasize defensive action taken against Armenian rebels sympathetic to Russia, Turkey's enemy at that time.
For the first time in modern Greek history has any one topic been at the center of public debate for as long as the controversial sixth grade history book. The debate revealed the differences that exist in Greek public opinion, that of the far left being a case in point, say historians.
Critics had said the book played down the suffering of Greeks at the hands of the Ottoman Turks and accused it of containing inaccuracies and being unpatriotic.
The center-right government came under fire Wednesday after it scrapped plans to bring out a sixth-grade textbook that would have toned down nationalistic rhetoric by offering a staid account of Greek suffering at the hands of the Ottomans and Turks.
Greece's conservative government withdrew a sixth-grade history textbook from state schools Tuesday following complaints by the Orthodox Church and right wing critics who said it was inaccurate and unpatriotic.
The complicated and often conflict-ridden relationship between the Greek Government and the Greek Orthodox Church is once more a hot topic in Greece in what is turning into a war of words and ideologies over the new Greek history textbook for 12-year-olds in schools since the beginning of this school year.