The educational CV of an assassin

Let's go back to the night Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov became a victim of a dark assassination.
President Recep Tayip Erdoğan gave his first statement a couple of hours later.

He underlined specifically which schools the assassin went to. He said, "The murderer Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş is a graduate of Söke Cumhuriyet [Republic] Anadolu [Anatolian] High School. He then graduated from a police vocational school."

Why did he feel the need to do so? Because the assassin wanted to look like an al-Nusra sympathizer. He wanted to create the perception that he committed the murder for religious motivations.

It is obvious that Erdoğan revealed immediately the fact that the terrorist received a secular education and studied in a police school to break this misleading perception.

The fact that he was a graduate of a Republican Anatolia High School showed he received a secular education. The fact that he then went to a police vocational school created the impression that he was from the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) and consolidated suspicions about his roots.

Erdoğan seemed to say, "He neither went to imam hatips [religious vocational schools] nor did he study theology. Don't be fooled by his camouflage." In other words, he is not like the person he wants to showcase. The fact that he was not from an imam hatip made it easier to unmask him.

But was if it had been the opposite? Then would we have concluded that the terrorist is from al-Nusra and that the imam hatips and theology faculties are nests of terror?

The curriculum debate

A few days after the assassination, theologian Mustafa İslamoğlu posted a tweet. "As long as the curriculum of imam hatips and theology...