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THE RISE OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION ANGERS SECULARISTS IN TURKEY Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms that President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defense against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation. Almost a million students are enrolled in “imam hatip” schools this year, up from just 65,000 in 2002 when Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party first came to power, he told the opening of one of the schools in Ankara last month.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:31:13 +0000

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