Kinderen van Atatürk

Summary Jan enters Turkey in Istanbul, the old imperial Byzantine and Ottoman capital, but concentrates on Mustafa Kemal 'Atatürk', the father of the modern, strictly secular republic. Here devout Muslims protest against a head-scarf ban, some women even prefer to go study in Christian Europe on account of it. Further inland, to the republican capital Ankara, he checks on various attitudes towards the Koranic pork and alcohol prohibition and visits schools where strict Islamic teaching gets precedence over scientific truth such as evolution. Finally the Alevites, a 20% minority of strange, inconsistent religious and cultural tradition.

S1.E8 ∙ Kinderen van Atatürk

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Stars : Jan Leyers

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 15, 2007

Countries of origin : Belgium

Official sites : Official site

Language : Dutch

Summary Jan enters Turkey in Istanbul, the old imperial Byzantine and Ottoman capital, but concentrates on Mustafa Kemal 'Atatürk', the father of the modern, strictly secular republic. Here devout Muslims protest against a head-scarf ban, some women even prefer to go study in Christian Europe on account of it. Further inland, to the republican capital Ankara, he checks on various attitudes towards the Koranic pork and alcohol prohibition and visits schools where strict Islamic teaching gets precedence over scientific truth such as evolution. Finally the Alevites, a 20% minority of strange, inconsistent religious and cultural tradition.

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 15, 2007

Countries of origin : Belgium

Official sites : Official site

Language : Dutch

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