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Turkey to stop teaching evolution in high school
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/23/middleeast/turkey-to-stop-teaching-evolution/index.html
Turkish high school students will no longer be taught the theory of evolution.
The subject has been cut from the curriculum under changes made to eliminate "controversial" topics, the head of the national board of education, Alpaslan Durmus, announced in a video address.
Erdogan has been vocal about wanting to raise "a pious generation."
This seems to be the go-to tactics/politics around the globe for the last couple of decades, be it right wing America, Afghan Taliban, North Korea, ISIS etc etc. Reduce education increase religon maintain power. How do we combat this trend, is it time for a few good men and women to do something different than nothing?