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**** Next, Turkey will teach that the sun orbits around the earth
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High school students in Istanbul protest the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in Turkish high schools. This protest occurred prior to the July 15, 2016, coup (BBC)
Secularists in Turkey are outraged that Charles Darwin's theory of
evolution is to be removed from high school textbooks and curricula on
biology, and replaced with claims that forms of life are unchanged.
Supposedly, mechanisms like adaptation, mutation and natural and
artificial selection will still be taught, but students apparently
will not be permitted to conclude that these mechanisms cause life
forms to evolve.
At the same time, there will be more classes on Sunni Islam religion,
and the new textbooks have increased emphasis of the importance of
jihad or holy war, saying that it means "love of homeland."
The new curriculum will also have much less information about Mustafa
Kemal Ataturk, the revered founder of Turkey after the collapse of the
Ottoman Empire. Ataturk declared that Turkey would be a secular
state, with freedom of worship for people of all religions, including
Jews and Christians.
The reason being given for all of these changes is that they're
necessary for the protection of Turkey, following the aborted coup
attempt on July 15, 2016. Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has
declared that he wants to create a "pious generation," and these
changes are necessary.
However, as usual for Erdogan, that's a lie. For years, starting long
before the coup attempt, Erdogan has been aggregating power to
himself, and has been changing Turkey's character from a secular state
to a conservative Islamist state.
In June of last year, a month before the coup attempt, there were a
wave of protests in hundreds of schools across Turkey over
restrictions on student freedom on overtly religious grounds.
Students protested restrictions on holding concerts at school, on not
allowing girls' hockey teams, and on secular literature or poetry
societies. They feared that ordinary high schools would turning in
strict religious schools, where girls and boys are segregated, with
increased emphasis on teaching Sunni Islamic religion and religious
practices.
Since the coup, Erdogan has ordered the firing or jailing of well over
100,000 people in all professions, from waitresses to judges. This
purge has included the firing of more than 33,000 of the nation's
teachers, about 4%. In addition, nearly 5,600 academics have been
dismissed and some 880 schools closed for alleged links to terror
groups. AP and Hurriyet (Ankara) and BBC (21-June-2016)
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**** Stanislav Petrov, 'The man who saved the world,' dies at age 77
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It's been revealed that Stanislav Petrov died on May 9 at age 77,
though his death only became widely known this month.
Petrov is credited as being "The man who saved the world," because of
events that transpired on September 26, 1983.
Petrov was on duty at a Russian nuclear early warning center, when a
siren sounded, and he received a computer readout saying that the
United States had launched a missile. The big, back-lit red screen
had the word "launch" on it. According to Petrov in 2013:
<QUOTE>"A minute later the siren went off again. The second
missile was launched. Then the third, and the fourth, and the
fifth. Computers changed their alerts from 'launch' to 'missile
strike'."<END QUOTE>
Petrov was frozen in place. He believed that if he passed the aler up
the military chain, then the Soviet Army would immediately launch a
retaliatory missile strike. Instead, he debated with himself what to
do, and ended up doing nothing:
<QUOTE>"Twenty-three minutes later I realized that nothing
had happened. If there had been a real strike, then I would
already know about it. It was such a relief."<END QUOTE>
Petrov violated military protocol, but he was not reprimanded for
doing so. Instead, he received an official reprimand not correctly
updating his log book.
It's possible, as many people believe, that Petrov's hesitancy saved
the world from a nuclear war, but I actually doubt that conclusion.
Russia was in a generational Unraveling era, where the entire Soviet
bureaucracy, just like Petrov, would have been extremely hesitant to
take the word of a computer that a war had begun. I think that it's
most likely that the military leadership would have taken a few
minutes to verify the attack before launching a counterattack, and war
would have been averted anyway. But that's just my guess. We'll
never know for sure. Russia Today and BBC (26-Sep-2013)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Turkey, Tayyip Recep Erdogan, Charles Darwin,
Soviet Union, Stanislav Petrov
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Next, Turkey will teach that the sun orbits around the earth
- Stanislav Petrov, 'The man who saved the world,' dies at age 77
****
**** Next, Turkey will teach that the sun orbits around the earth
****
High school students in Istanbul protest the spread of Islamic fundamentalism in Turkish high schools. This protest occurred prior to the July 15, 2016, coup (BBC)
Secularists in Turkey are outraged that Charles Darwin's theory of
evolution is to be removed from high school textbooks and curricula on
biology, and replaced with claims that forms of life are unchanged.
Supposedly, mechanisms like adaptation, mutation and natural and
artificial selection will still be taught, but students apparently
will not be permitted to conclude that these mechanisms cause life
forms to evolve.
At the same time, there will be more classes on Sunni Islam religion,
and the new textbooks have increased emphasis of the importance of
jihad or holy war, saying that it means "love of homeland."
The new curriculum will also have much less information about Mustafa
Kemal Ataturk, the revered founder of Turkey after the collapse of the
Ottoman Empire. Ataturk declared that Turkey would be a secular
state, with freedom of worship for people of all religions, including
Jews and Christians.
The reason being given for all of these changes is that they're
necessary for the protection of Turkey, following the aborted coup
attempt on July 15, 2016. Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has
declared that he wants to create a "pious generation," and these
changes are necessary.
However, as usual for Erdogan, that's a lie. For years, starting long
before the coup attempt, Erdogan has been aggregating power to
himself, and has been changing Turkey's character from a secular state
to a conservative Islamist state.
In June of last year, a month before the coup attempt, there were a
wave of protests in hundreds of schools across Turkey over
restrictions on student freedom on overtly religious grounds.
Students protested restrictions on holding concerts at school, on not
allowing girls' hockey teams, and on secular literature or poetry
societies. They feared that ordinary high schools would turning in
strict religious schools, where girls and boys are segregated, with
increased emphasis on teaching Sunni Islamic religion and religious
practices.
Since the coup, Erdogan has ordered the firing or jailing of well over
100,000 people in all professions, from waitresses to judges. This
purge has included the firing of more than 33,000 of the nation's
teachers, about 4%. In addition, nearly 5,600 academics have been
dismissed and some 880 schools closed for alleged links to terror
groups. AP and Hurriyet (Ankara) and BBC (21-June-2016)
Related Articles
- In Turkey, May 16 election may bring Islamist President into power (15-Apr-2007)
- More than a million of secularists rally in Turkey (14-May-2007)
- Iranian police swoop down on women with loose headscarves (25-Apr-2007)
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**** Stanislav Petrov, 'The man who saved the world,' dies at age 77
****
It's been revealed that Stanislav Petrov died on May 9 at age 77,
though his death only became widely known this month.
Petrov is credited as being "The man who saved the world," because of
events that transpired on September 26, 1983.
Petrov was on duty at a Russian nuclear early warning center, when a
siren sounded, and he received a computer readout saying that the
United States had launched a missile. The big, back-lit red screen
had the word "launch" on it. According to Petrov in 2013:
<QUOTE>"A minute later the siren went off again. The second
missile was launched. Then the third, and the fourth, and the
fifth. Computers changed their alerts from 'launch' to 'missile
strike'."<END QUOTE>
Petrov was frozen in place. He believed that if he passed the aler up
the military chain, then the Soviet Army would immediately launch a
retaliatory missile strike. Instead, he debated with himself what to
do, and ended up doing nothing:
<QUOTE>"Twenty-three minutes later I realized that nothing
had happened. If there had been a real strike, then I would
already know about it. It was such a relief."<END QUOTE>
Petrov violated military protocol, but he was not reprimanded for
doing so. Instead, he received an official reprimand not correctly
updating his log book.
It's possible, as many people believe, that Petrov's hesitancy saved
the world from a nuclear war, but I actually doubt that conclusion.
Russia was in a generational Unraveling era, where the entire Soviet
bureaucracy, just like Petrov, would have been extremely hesitant to
take the word of a computer that a war had begun. I think that it's
most likely that the military leadership would have taken a few
minutes to verify the attack before launching a counterattack, and war
would have been averted anyway. But that's just my guess. We'll
never know for sure. Russia Today and BBC (26-Sep-2013)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Turkey, Tayyip Recep Erdogan, Charles Darwin,
Soviet Union, Stanislav Petrov
Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
Contribute to Generational Dynamics via PayPal
John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
Subscribe to World View: http://generationaldynamics.com/subscribe
