Sözcü criticises the crackdown on the reading list:
“The West lets its children read our authors to broaden their horizons while we try to shield our own children from Victor Hugo. … It’s one thing for a book to be difficult to access, but it’s quite another for it to be declared harmful. Moreover, the director of the National Intelligence Organization, İbrahim Kalın, wrote a book on Heidegger. When someone in the highest echelons of government writes about Heidegger, it’s regarded as philosophical depth, so why do alarm bells ring when Heidegger’s name appears on a school reading list? … We want a Turkey that isn’t afraid of its own children’s intellect and that encourages them to read books rather than banning them.”
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