Lawmaker from Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Sadık Yakut, who has been vocal in his objection to mixed-sex education, insisted that what he said was solely meant to offer an alternative in the educational system, not to eliminate mixed-sex education, Hürriyet Daily News reports.
The opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) condemns the statement by Yakut, even though the AKP underlines that he has expressed a personal view.
Hürriyet Daily News also stresses that parents in Turkey already have the opportunity to send their children to boys or girls schools if they do not prefer coed schools.
CHP Deputy Chair Bülent Tezcan believes that Yakut’s remarks reflected the AKP’s intentions and they were aimed at rallying public support for this, the news agency reports.
“Floating a guide debate, testing waters among the people within the framework of that discussion and then taking a stance accordingly before launching an implementation is one of the best known methods of the AKP,” Tezcan is quoted by Hürriyet Daily News as saying in a written statement released on November 21.
