Terrorist Tayyip Erdogan undermines secular constitution

[union]

Turkey police break up education bill protest
Demonstrators in Ankara protested a bill proposed by government that seeks to boost the influence of Islamic schools.



Turkish police have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of people protesting an education reform bill that opponents say will boost the influence of Islamic schools, a move seen as contrary to Turkey's secular constitution.

Police broke up the demonstration in Ankara on Thursday, ending a two-day standoff with protesters who wanted to march toward Parliament where the bill is being debated.

The government wants to overturn a 1997 law that kept students under 15 years old from attending religious "imam
hatip" schools. That law led to a sharp decline in attendance at the schools.

A Reuters witness said protesters threw stones at riot police on Thursday as they moved in to break up the demonstration after refusing the group's request to march on parliament. There were further clashes in side streets.

Similar demonstrations held elsewhere in Turkey on Wednesday were also broken up by police.

Several demonstrators were hurt in the clashes on Thursday, but t here were no reports of detentions or major casualties among protesters at the rally organised by the KESK public workers union confederation.

Parliament is hotly debating a bill overturning the 1997 law, that was imposed with the backing of the military.

Parliamentarians on Thursday accepted a proposal from Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party to offer optional courses on the Quran and the Prophet Mohammad's life for middle and upper school pupils - from about 10 to 18 years old.

The assembly was expected to approve the bill in the coming days and the AK Party is able to call on a large parliamentary majority to push the law through.

The 1997 law had led to a sharp decrease in the numbers at iman hatip schools which were originally set up to train Muslim clerics. Erdogan and half his cabinet attended such schools.

The main secular opposition People's Republican Party (CHP) agrees on the need for education reform, but says Erdogan is seeking revenge for the 1997 law and attempting to bring about his stated desire to raise a "religious youth".

While the AK Party has won three elections since 2002 and remains popular, there is a large minority of urbanised Turks who are wary of its roots in political Islam and suspect it has plans to overturn, piece-by-piece, the secular republic.

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[DR-YALAXOOW]

Union your a secular extremist. and thats not good. man calm down my nigger.

[Voltage]

Erdogan is a "terrorist" for giving Turkish Muslim children in Turkey the same rights Turkish Muslim children enjoy in Britain and the United States? The kid is a total joke.

The Turkish parliament is a free parliament for the first time in its history since the Ataturk revolution and Turkey is more democratic today than anytime in its history. The politics and future of Turkey will be shaped by the free expression of the Turkish people's aspirations through their elected officials like all democratic societies.

How can a minority try to dictate the democratic and free affairs of larger society?Tough luck if you can't control the majority of Parliament, nor can get voted in through the ballot box.

[Advo]

Allahu akbar!

Turkey is slowly returning to it's roots, separate the weak from the strong mujaahid Tayyip. Over turn those infidel laws that were placed by atheist and see it that Islam once again shines in the land that gave birth to caliphates, the defenders of the Muslim world.

[union]

The secular people of Turkey will not stand for this closeted Islamist Erodgan. No doubt he will be thrown out in the next election. How dare he try to force Turkey's children into Taliban style madrassah schools, he probably wants them to be indoctrinated with ideas hostile to the beauty and glory of Kemalism. Death to the AKP

[abduljrus]

The secular people of Turkey will not stand for this closeted Islamist Erodgan. No doubt he will be thrown out in the next election. How dare he try to force Turkey's children into Taliban style madrassah schools, he probably wants them to be indoctrinated with ideas hostile to the beauty and glory of Kemalism. Death to the AKP

sxb, you are a joke. At this point, it's clear you are just looking for a reaction.

[union]

Whatever you say slave jrus

[Colonel]

Mujahid Tayyib Erdogan is slowly leading Turkey back towards a return to the glorious Ottoman kingdom, may his task be made easy and may he crush the minority seculars which are only found in a few neighbourhoods of Istanbul.



The days of glory are fast returning.

[jalaaludin5]

[union]

Colonel, you are right....Erodgan is acting like a sultan
we will do to him what Kemal did to the last Sultan

Kukri, bloody terrorist, stop posting that sacrilegious picture

[AhmedBoqor]

Turkey with Islam at its center was a dynasty during its heydays. What has the secularist-led Turkey ever accomplished among the worlds elite? nothing.

Erdogan is a political warrior of Islam

[gurey25]

The secular people of Turkey will not stand for this closeted Islamist Erodgan. No doubt he will be thrown out in the next election. How dare he try to force Turkey's children into Taliban style madrassah schools, he probably wants them to be indoctrinated with ideas hostile to the beauty and glory of Kemalism. Death to the AKP

The secular turks make up less than 25% of the population. and they have been lording it over everyone else since attaturk..
no longer really, since the 1909 Young Turk coup.
The top leadership of the Young turks were "secularists"
and the 3 leaders in charge were all atheists.

The turks are back in control of their own lives.

may allah guide them back to greatness.

[SOM1960]

Union your a secular extremist. and thats not good. man calm down my nigger.

There is no place for secular extremists in the somali society

[Thuganomics]

Great man indeed Tayyib by name Tayyib by nature

[union]

The secular people of Turkey will not stand for this closeted Islamist Erodgan. No doubt he will be thrown out in the next election. How dare he try to force Turkey's children into Taliban style madrassah schools, he probably wants them to be indoctrinated with ideas hostile to the beauty and glory of Kemalism. Death to the AKP

The secular turks make up less than 25% of the population. and they have been lording it over everyone else since attaturk..
no longer really, since the 1909 Young Turk coup.
The top leadership of the Young turks were "secularists"
and the 3 leaders in charge were all atheists.

The turks are back in control of their own lives.

may allah guide them back to greatness.

Stop spreading lies about great Turkey, kulaha 25%....where in the heck did you get that low number from? From my own estimates it's at least 50%. The only reason Erodgan won the election is because of a population explosion among the slum dwellers and the peasantry and the generally uneducated and poor folk who vote based on religion and not reason.

The Turkish secularist really are the lions of the world, more so than France, because they have their religious extremists fighting for the right to wear hijab or attend madrassha
.....they'll be fighting for the basics for the next century so they won't ever have time to go for any major islamist agenda