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I grew up with Aziz Nesin's humorous books and later read Ali Nesin's "who is afraid of maths?". They helped me immensely while searching for meaning in life. (An adolescent endeavor, as I later noticed) What a family of geniuses. Turkey definitely doesn't deserve them.
"Turkey definitely doesn't deserve them." This is a very wrong thing to say. Ali took his education elsewhere, yes; but Aziz Nesin grew in that country.
I have wrote a bit about the situation of Turkish education system here, in the form of three big consecutive comments. Here is a link for anybody interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15373653 [Edit: rereading this series of comments I linked above, I note some mistakes in there. E.g. the wealth tax was collected from Muslims too, albeit at a wildly lower rate compared to non-Muslims. Apart from this sort…
I have wrote a bit about the situation of Turkish education system here, in the form of three big consecutive comments. Here is a link for anybody interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15373653 [Edit: rereading this series of comments I linked above, I note some mistakes in there. E.g. the wealth tax was collected from Muslims too, albeit at a wildly lower rate compared to non-Muslims. Apart from this sort…
I'm glad to see you have hope for a positive change. Can you reconcile that with the purges in the Turkish education system after the 2016 coup?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27état_att...
I'd love any reason to be optimistic here.
I grew up with Aziz Nesin's humorous books and later read Ali Nesin's "who is afraid of maths?". They helped me immensely while searching for meaning in life. (An adolescent endeavor, as I later noticed) What a family of geniuses. Turkey definitely doesn't deserve them.
> What a family of geniuses. Turkey definitely doesn't deserve them. What an arrogant opinion.
It’s one of the most beautiful places on earth, so should be in your bucket list if you like to travel. Visit Şirince, stay in Nişanyan Houses and see Math Village. Here is a few photos I shot that time; https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16340854491/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16155210870/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16340854491/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16156704877/ https://www.flickr.com/p…
It’s one of the most beautiful places on earth, so should be in your bucket list if you like to travel. Visit Şirince, stay in Nişanyan Houses and see Math Village. Here is a few photos I shot that time; https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16340854491/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16155210870/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16340854491/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16156704877/ https://www.flickr.com/p…
It’s one of the most beautiful places on earth, so should be in your bucket list if you like to travel. Visit Şirince, stay in Nişanyan Houses and see Math Village. Here is a few photos I shot that time; https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16340854491/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16155210870/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16340854491/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/azer/16156704877/ https://www.flickr.com/p…
Wow, really good photos. My family once visited close to there and I remember everyone telling us the wine is a scam too.
There was an article in a French newspaper that details the real story about education changing in Turkey. The education system has moved from being mostly secular to being extremely orthodox islamic. Newly brought in last year: jihad (and no, not "the peaceful kind"), and removal of evolution. New this year, the how righteous of the punishment of stoning is. The illustration from that article was that several girls…
I grew up with Aziz Nesin's humorous books and later read Ali Nesin's "who is afraid of maths?". They helped me immensely while searching for meaning in life. (An adolescent endeavor, as I later noticed) What a family of geniuses. Turkey definitely doesn't deserve them.