Sunday, March 17, 2013

"The spectre of Marx is haunting Turkey"

From Angry Arab's chief correspondent in Turkey:
"In February, Turkey’s Higher Education Board (YÖK) confirmed that it asked an academic from Kocaeli University to explain why he listed German philosopher Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto” on his course syllabus and showed documentary films from American filmmaker and social critic Michael Moore in class, upon a complaint from a student.

And yesterday the trade union of teachers protested the question by reading Karl Marx's Capital in Trabzon province of Turkey: "