Turkey to implement mosques in schools under new rules

 Turkey’s Education Ministry unveiled new regulations this week that require every new school in the country be outfitted with gender-separated Muslim prayer rooms. The new regulations call for public and private schools under the purview of the government to also have an ablution house used for ritual washing before praying. Set out in Article 5, […]

 Turkey’s Education Ministry unveiled new regulations this week that require every new school in the country be outfitted with gender-separated Muslim prayer rooms.

The new regulations call for public and private schools under the purview of the government to also have an ablution house used for ritual washing before praying.

Set out in Article 5, the new regulations specify each school must have a “shelter according to the relevant legislation, such as a manager’s office, an administrative room, an ablution house, a mosque, kitchen/dining room/canteen /cafeteria, Storage room/equipment room/archive room, sufficient number of toilets and washbasins according to the establishment’s type.”

The Labour Union of the Labourers of Education and Science (Eğitim-İ) decried as going against the Turkish constitution. 

In a statement made on its website, the teachers union accused the Turkish government, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of “abandoning secular, scientific and contemporary education” and replacing it with religious studies and Erdogan AK (Law and Justice) Party propaganda. (euronews)