Fascist indoctrination and history manipulation in Turkish education.
The following text is an extract from postings in the Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.turkish by David Davidian.
Below you will read texts taken from Turkish high schools texts clearly showing examples fascist indoctrination by the Turkish educational system!
Let's start with a series aired on Turkish Radio and Television's international short-wave broadcasts in the Fall of 1988, entitled the _Armenian File_. I have the entire series recorded, as well as a decade of anti-Armenian news broadcasts. The _Armenian File_ is a pile of anti-Armenian revisionism, genocide denial, and racism. When you are done with this example, then start chewing on the Turkish Television airing, just a few years ago, of the unearthing of mass graves of Armenians killed in the Turkish genocide of the Armenians Turkish State Television reported as being graves of Turks killed by Armenians, accompanied with vehement anti- Armenian lies, including the classic scene of some old Turkish man who claimed to find a Koran among the bones, supposedly "proving" these bones were Turkish -- yet the Koran looked in physically new condition! It seems Turkish State Radio and Television takes their audience as fools!
Now, the following is directly from Turkish high school texts:
"...Ruslara birlikte sucsuz, gunahsiz Turk komsulari uzerine saldirmislardir. Ermeni Komitecileri gozleri donmus bicimde pek cok Turk kentini, kasabasini, koyunu basmis, cocuk, yasli, kadin demeden on binlerce Turk'u oldurmustur."[1]
...in translation:
"...Along with the Russians they attacked their innocent neighbours. Armenian Revolutionaries like madmen attacked many Turkish cities, townships and villages killing without distinguishing children, the elderly and women by the tens of thousands."
...and with respect to Turkish fascist-superiority indoctrination, we have:
"Hukmetme istegi aslinda bir ic-gududur. Her insanda suur-alti bir kuvvet olarak yasar. Bu ic-gudu ayni zamanda baskalarini somurmek icin bir vasitadir. Bazi milletlerin bu yolla istsmarciliga yonelmesi Turklerde mevcut olan "bey gururun"nun onlarda eksik olmasindandir. Beylik gururu, sadece ogunme vesilesi olan basit bir psikoloji degildir. Asli ozelligi, karsilik beklemeden koruyucu olmasidir. Bunun temeli de, hukum altina alinmis insanlari sevmektir." [2]
...in translation:
"The want to dominate is an instinct. It exists in a human as an unconscious force. This instinct at the same time is a means to exploit. The inclination of some nations to exploit in this manner is because they lack "pride of prince (bey)" that exists among the Turks. The "pride of prince" is not only a simple psychological state for an opportunity to brag. Its main characteristic is protecting (those under one's domination) without expecting anything in return. The foundation of this is loving the people under one's domination."
Think of what this can justify as far as exploitation, occupation, and adventurism! It seems Turks don't have to "consult" the true histories of those peoples who have been under Turkish "loving" domination, for by definition, such domination is not only welcome but "instinctively benevolent". By definition, those under such "benevolence" when crying for emancipation are actually unprincipled subjects and an affront to the definition of an indoctrinated Turk. Such subjects subsequently acquire all the characteristics of traitors and become de-humanised targets of inhumane treatment.
We don't even have to go back hundreds of years of Turkish history -- we can ignore the Bulgarian horrors of the 1870s, the massacres of Macedonians, the atrocities against all subjects peoples in Ottoman Turkey, including the genocide of the Armenians in 1915, and the continued oppression of the indigestible mass of Kurds in the "heartland" of motherland (Anayurt) Anadolu. It is this nationally indoctrinated philosophy that is used to justify the arrest, jailing, torture, and murder of Kurds, and even Turkish progressives, most of whom are ethnic Turks of Sunni persuasion. To complete the cycle, we have the Turkish army whose existence, by part of its definition, is to protect all that is claimed as Turkish.
Perhaps I should scan in and post the map included in these Turkish high school texts showing that human civilisation was founded by Turks and how mankind spread out all over the world, to the point where all modern peoples were once originally Turkic, and how all languages are based on a proto-Altaic mother tongue. Such a fascist indoctrination!
--- Turkish High School Texts ---
[1] _Turkiye Cumhuriyeti Inkilap Tarihi_, Mukerrem K. Su & Prof. Dr. Ahmet Mumcu, Orta Ogretim Kurumlari, Milli Egitim Bakanligi, Istanbul, 1981, page 118.
[2] _Tarih Lise I, Ibrahim Kafesoglu, Altan Deliorman, 1977 Ikinci Basilis, Milli Egitim Bakanligi, page 238
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