The Main Provecauter İs the TURKİSH STATE

As is known, nowadays, Turkey is busy with an agenda of hijab ban. There are attempts to solve this problem; but its content is very controversial. While some people evaluate this problem as a religious problem, others seem it as an educational problem. Because of this dilemma, when some people, who describe this problem in the context of religion, send their children to elementary schools with wearing their headscarves; others labeled them as a ‘provocateur’. So, The Free Thought and Education Rights Association, OZGUR-DER, issued a press statement about it.

While a head of OZGUR-DER, Rıdvan Kaya, emphasizes that there is no any legitimacy to ban headscarf anywhere, he criticized charging of provocation.

He focuses on that for people, who do not look for any provocation in the intervention of the state over people’s beliefs, labeling people who protect their Islamic values as a provocateur is rudeness and shamelessness. “Aggressor attitudes over against demand on entering elementary schools with headscarves is the product of invalid intellect.” He said.

Main points from this press statement are as follows:

-“Headscarf ban has been performed barbarically after February 28th period. There are many people ranged from academicians, politicians to lawyers, journalists who played an active role in this process. With the last developments, it is understood that after that, this ban cannot be performed. But these oppressors are trying to continue their oppression instead of apologizing from the people.

Now, they demand that headscarf ban should continue in elementary and high schools in remuneration for solving this problem in universities.”

What’s it to you what our children wear?

-“They are trying to determine the norms and values of Muslims. And then they are saying that headscarf in elementary school is not acceptable. Are you fatwa authority? We are asking: What is to you? Why are you interested with people’s wearing?

Nowadays, some unhealthy intellects present their aggression over against demand on entering elementary schools with headscarves. Their psychology is not healthy.”

How about your children?... Do they choose themselves not to wear headscarf?

-“According to these aggressor, our children is not wearing headscarves with their own consciousness; pressure from their families are very effective. We are asking you: Where do you know it? Have you ever asked it or researched it?

Sold again! We are not your slaves. We cannot accept the procedure of outcaste! We are not imposing our beliefs and anyone cannot impose his beliefs.”

Charging as a Provocateur is a sign of complex

“We are criticizing some Islamic institutions and people who joined the Kemalist orchestra in order to defense that headscarf in elementary school is not necessary. This is a sign of complex.”

AK Party should look for provocation in impositions of the state

-“In this context, we are reminding that Education Minister of AK Party government which describes demand on entering elementary schools with headscarves as a provocation and other officers should look for main provocation in the impositions of the state. If in any case we mention from a provocation, we should focuses on the practices of the state in which they impose compulsory education and also they determine what they wear. This is a very big dilemma.”