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Turkey Will Include Alevis In New Textbooks

By Howard M. Friedman

In Turkey, Faruk Celik, Minister of Work and Social Security, announced that new textbooks which incorporate information about the 6 to 12 million Alevis in the country will be available for the 2011-12 school year.  According to Today's Zaman, the new textbooks grow out of a government initiative directed at dealing with complaints by Alevis that their children in public schools are required to attend religious classes that focus on Sunni Islam. However Federation of Alevi-Bekta?i Associations Chairman Ali Balk?z said his organization could not support compulsory religion classes, even if they include information about Alevism and Alevi figures.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).