The Turkish Government doesn't have a monopoly on scientific illiteracy. The UK Government in pinned in place by the Ulster Democratic Party which has a track record of the same. Their Education Minister, Mervyn Storey, has called for schools to teach Creationism (the belief that life on Earth is of recent origin and started with Adam and Eve) whilst Culture Minister, Nelson McCausland, has called for the Ulster Museum to promote the same "theory" in its science exhibits. Some people might be ashamed to rely on the votes of such people to hang on to office and it certainly makes it difficult for our Govt. to criticize the AKP.