Bismillah

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has taken part in a ceremony to replant the country's oldest olive tree, which was uprooted after 945 years, at the site of a "green life expo" in Antalya.

AKP Deputy Chairman Bekir Bozdağ has said his party will object the Supreme Election Board (YSK) decision to ban the use of “Bismillah” (in the name of God) in the AKP’s campaign jingle.

The phrase in the headline could soon become how kindergarten teachers greet their students in Turkey. An education director in a southern province recently became the first official off the starting blocks, after a National Education Council decision to implement religious classes in kindergartens, disguised as “values education.”

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.