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    TURKISH EDUCATION MINISTRY DEFENDS A TEXT BOOK THAT INCLUDES SLURS ABOUT ARMENIANS

    ARMRADIO.AM
    28.06.2012 14:45

    The Ministry of Education of Turkey has defended a school text book
    that includes slurs about Armenians as well as a number of Turkish
    writers, saying the book was "written with the sense of national
    reflex and humorous criticism," the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

    Penned by Yunus Zeyrek, the book, titled "Bu Dosyayı Kaldırıyorum:
    Ermeni Meselesi" ("Closing this File: The Armenian Issue") defines
    Armenians as "dishonorable and treacherous" and vilifies novelists
    such as Nobel Prize Laureate Orhan Pamuk and writer Elif Şafak.

    History and literature teachers distributed the books to students of
    their own volition after receiving them.

    Education Minister Omer Dincer responded a parliamentary question
    proposed by Kadir Gokmen Oğut of the opposition Republican People's
    Party (CHP) about the book, saying "the examples in the book were
    written with the sense of national reflex and humorous criticism,"
    the Daily News Reports, citing daily Taraf.

    Oğut asked whether the ministry had approved the handing out of the
    book and also whether the content of the book could be considered as
    being a form of hate crime. In his response, Dincer said the Ministry
    of Education had never recommended the book. "The Governorship of
    Istanbul stated that some of the books were presented to students by
    the District Governor of Kartal and that nobody was targeted in any
    chapter of the book."

    Dincer had earlier announced that the ministry had launched a probe
    against a controversial book distributed by the education directorate
    among high schools in Istanbul's Kartal district

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