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Turkish Textbooks: Turning History on Its Head

Uzay Bulut
Gatestone Institute, May 30, 2024

“Turkish government authorities have targeted their own indigenous peoples of Anatolia, namely the Pontic Greeks and Armenians.”
 
Turkey’s Islamist government under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is preparing to further indoctrinate Turkish schoolchildren in propaganda regarding Israel, Greeks, Armenians, Cyprus and other issues of history and geography.

New content, named “Turkey’s Century Education Model”, was added to this year’s curriculum and only recently made available for public opinion by the Ministry of National Education.

Additions were made, among other studies, to the “History of the Revolution of Turkish Republic and Kemalism”, and geography, regarding Israel, Greeks, Armenians, Cyprus and others.

Turkish history textbooks will include more content on “Palestine”, Israel and Zionism. The misleading chapter on the subject matter, which already existed, has now been extended even further. … [To read the full article, click here]

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