Education will no longer be co-ed in Konevi Anatolian High School in Konya, a central Anatolian province of Turkey, and those male and female students will have separate classes for the next academic year of 2017-2018, it has been reported on the official website of the school.
The arbitrary decision signed by the school principal posted on the school website as an "announcement for the parents".
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Tuncay Özkan criticised the decision due to its unlawfulness and discriminative, saying that ‘‘while the world deals with the science, our school principals are busy with separating female and male students in education…These dangerous attempts will end in tears.’’
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) clearly wants to put an end to scientific and secular education through reactionary-Islamist impositions taken in the field of education since its political power in 2002. With all the rhetoric and all the decisions taken, the AKP government tries to raise a religious, vindictive generation through religionization of education and anti-coeducation policies.
An AKP deputy İbrahim Korkmaz had previously stated in a live broadcasting that he is against coeducation system by labelling it as ‘immoral’ and ‘contradictory to Islamic traditions and values’.
