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Turkish Children Steered Toward Religious Education

AKP policies are forcing a majority of children to be pushed toward either religious education or vocational schools. 
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Just think of the Russian matryoshka, or nesting, dolls. They go from large to small, one nestled within another. The dolls began by portraying a mother in peasant dress and her children — the family members lined up in order all the way to the newborn.

Now try to adopt that imagination into thinking about a nation, while playing with the metaphors and substituting the older woman with people’s way of approaching their God — or not. Surely, not everyone comes from the same religion or has the same level of religiosity. But like the matryoshka dolls, they all live within the same society.

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