Turkish textbooks: Christians were tools of foreign powers in World War I
September 16, 2014
School textbooks in current use in Turkey portray the region’s Christians of a century ago as anti-Ottoman tools of Great Britain and Russia, according to a study conducted by an Armenian magazine.
One textbook refers to the Armenian Genocide as “necessary deportations,” according to a Fides summary of the study.
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Posted by: Minnesota Mary -
Sep. 17, 2014 12:48 PM ET USA
For more on why the U.S. went into World War I read Pat Buchanan's book, "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War," and Benjamin Freedman's 1962 speech at the Willard Hotel. Christians very often have been duped by the Powers That Be.
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Posted by: jg23753479 -
Sep. 16, 2014 5:00 PM ET USA
Erdogan denies Turkey participated in genocide when it killed hundreds of thousands of Armenians, helps fund IS terrorists, refuses to participate in any campaign to eradicate these so-called "extremist" Muslims, and now requires all Turkish students to study the Koran, precisely the document that tells all IS terrorists how to act. I think Erdogan is a paragon of proper Muslim behavior.
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Posted by: Defender -
Sep. 16, 2014 1:33 PM ET USA
Now Erdogan's government is requiring all students to study the Qur'an. Notice that while governments impose lies into textbooks, in the US we have Doctors of Education to keep lies in textbooks, e.g., the story of Galileo.
