Newspaper targets gender equality course, university launches investigation
The newspaper covered the investigation in yesterday's issue with the title "Yet another success of journalism by Milli Gazete!"
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The University of Health Sciences (SBÜ) has launched an inquiry into "Gender Equality" elective course after it was targeted by daily Milli Gazete (National Newspaper), which called it "the course fundamentally rejecting fitra", which means "original disposition/nature" in an Islamic context.
As reported by the state-run Anadolu Agency (AA), a statement released by the university has said that the related course is an elective course at the SBÜ while other universities offer it as a compulsory course.
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On May 7, 2015, the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) held a "Workshop on Gender Equality Sensitive University" in a first in Turkey. The workshop was attended by women academics from different universities and women representatives of civil society organizations. At the workshop, the YÖK discussed integrating "gender equality" into the curricula of universities as a compulsory course. |
'We cannot approve it'
Launching an investigation into the course taught at the tocology department, the SBÜ administration has said, "It is impossible for us to allow, tolerate or approve of any course content that targets our social values, manners, customs and old traditions, religious and national values."
The statement has added: "We never approve our national and sacred values being a matter of debate, even if it is under the pretext of a course.
"Embracing it as a principle to raise our youth with national feelings, we, as a university, would like it to be known that we have the same sensitivities and carry out our works in this direction."
Daily Milli Gazete previously wrote that "homosexuality was taught" at the "course that fundamentally rejects the fitra." (RT/SD)