{"id":30419,"date":"2012-12-17T14:52:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=30419"},"modified":"2012-12-17T15:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T13:32:38","slug":"religion-questions-now-part-of-university-entrance-exam-in-turkey-30419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/religion-questions-now-part-of-university-entrance-exam-in-turkey-30419\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion questions now part of university entrance exam in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30439\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30439\" title=\"religion-classes-turkey-nationalturk-0455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/religion-classes-turkey-nationalturk-0455-280x210.jpg\" alt=\"Religion questions inserted into university exams in Turkey\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/religion-classes-turkey-nationalturk-0455-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/religion-classes-turkey-nationalturk-0455.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Religion questions inserted into university exams in Turkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Turkish PM Erdogan had a remark this year saying that he desires a pious nation. His AKP government\u00a0works tirelessly to fulfill his wish. Lastly\u00a0questions pertaining to religion will be part of the university entrance exam starting in 2013.<\/h2>\n<p>Ankara \/ NationalTurk &#8211; Head of Turkey&#8217;s Student Selection and Placement Center (\u00d6SYM), Ali Demir told the &#8216; good &#8216; news that questions pertaining to religion will be added to the university entrance exam starting in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Religious classes are compulsory in schools in Turkey. Pupils and students must learn phrases from holy book although they have no clue what they mean or even don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>Now students who want to go to a university are forced to learn some verses in gibberish or information on Islam which\u00a0they will forget right after the exam is over, only to get higher points in the exams.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish PM Erdogan had a remark this year saying that he desires a pious nation. His government works tirelessly to fulfill his wish. Lastly questions pertaining to religion will be part of the university entrance exam starting in 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,42,17,118,174,194,173,188,14],"tags":[41302,41304,41305,41303,41300,2660,41301,15315],"class_list":["post-30419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-education","category-europe","category-hot","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","category-turkey-politics","category-world","tag-osym-turkey","tag-religion-classes","tag-religion-classes-turkey","tag-religion-turkey","tag-turkey-universities","tag-turkey-university","tag-turkey-university-exams","tag-turkish-pm-erdogan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}