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Secularists: Government plan favours Islamic schools in Turkey - The National

Secularists: Government plan favours Islamic schools in Turkey

Thomas Seibert
Mar 11, 2012

ISTANBUL // Forget the headscarf issue, human rights or the Kurdish problem. Nothing gets the blood of Turkish lawmakers boiling like a row over children's education.

Committee meetings on a government bill to overhaul Turkey's education system last week produced a fist-fight among participants and a record-breaking filibuster by an opposition politician.

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