Erdogan hails Turkish religious education as bulwark against foreign hegemony
Saturday, 05 July 2014 14:11
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan praised religious education in Turkey during a programme on Friday organised by the Imam Hatip Schools Alumni Association.
"A nation which forgets its religion would become ruled by other nations which would attempt to control it," Erdogan said in a speech after the Ramadan dinner in Istanbul, "and if a civilisation forgets the sources upon which it was founded, it will fall captive to other civilisations."
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