Turkey's National Education Council

Guidance classes in Turkish schools to introduce professions from a gender-based perspective

The curriculum of the guidance and career planning classes in secondary schools has been renewed in a gender discriminative manner, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

The revised program for the guidance and career planning classes states that students should be told of social gender roles and guided to make their choices accordingly.

Preschool religious education to start in southern Turkey district, daily claims

A district educational board in the southern province of Osmaniye has sent a program including religious practices to all preschool institutions, according to Turkish daily Milliyet. 

The 21-page program, which was marked "urgent," has been sent to schools in the Kadirli district, reportedly giving the details of "Values Education" at preschool institutions.