Compulsory Religious Education in Turkey

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" Compulsory Religious Education in Turkey "
Özgür H. Çınar

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082459
Doc. No	:	LA126088
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18710328-12341253‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Özgür H. Çınar
Title & Author	:	Compulsory Religious Education in Turkey [Article]\ Özgür H. Çınar
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion Human Rights
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	8/3
Page No	:	223–241
Abstract	:	The question of religious education has been debated in Turkey since the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. However, with Turkey’s commencement of the accession process towards becoming a full member of the European Union, this debate has intensified and after the judgment in the Hasan and Eylem Zengin case at the European Court of Human Rights in 2007, obligations arising from international law have become more impellent. The question of religious education has been debated in Turkey since the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. However, with Turkey’s commencement of the accession process towards becoming a full member of the European Union, this debate has intensified and after the judgment in the Hasan and Eylem Zengin case at the European Court of Human Rights in 2007, obligations arising from international law have become more impellent.
Descriptor	:	Alevism
Descriptor	:	compulsory Religious Culture and Ethics classes
Descriptor	:	European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)
Descriptor	:	European Union (EU)
Descriptor	:	right to education
Descriptor	:	secularism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18710328-12341253‬