I do hope that the people rightly throwing their hands up in horror at these changes in education in Turkey, are also as concerned about education in UK too. In case people haven't noticed there has been increasing control by religious organisations in UK education too. Rejuvinated in recent years by the Labour Party- to its eternal shame - led by St. Tony of Blair, a religious nutter like Reg, but continued on by the present Con-Dem government too.
So as well as the 'traditional' state schools for Jews, CoE, R.C and Methodists, we can add to that a growing list of various intolerant, backward looking organisations such as Happy Clappy Christian fundamentalists, Seven Day Adventists, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu to name a few. It will not be long before the Mormons are in on the act and indeed the Scientologists. With the record of all these religious organisations I am always surprised that we allow them any role in the education of the nation's young.