‘Blue Homeland’ debuts at Turkish schools

Taking another step in its promotion of the "Blue Homeland" doctrine that violates international law, Turkey has included the theory in the 9th grade geography textbooks of the country's high schools (age 14).

The syllabus includes problematic exhortations to teachers to give examples of "Turkey's struggle against unjust claims that ignore the country's legitimate and geographical interests in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean."

However, these maps are general and not designed on the basis of those promoted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself, which, among other things, presented half of the Aegean as Turkish. The maps do not include the geographical boundaries that were used extensively by its initiators, in front of which Ergogan was even photographed.

In the map accompanying the relevant extract, the phrase "Blue Homeland" appears without...