Posted on 04/07/2015 4:59:16 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Turkish officials have launched a probe after a teacher posed for a photo with her students who made a snowwoman that “violates social values,” Turkish media reported April 7.
Çilem Sakine Coşkun, a physical education teacher at Nurhak Anadolu High School in the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş, was recently photographed with a group of students who had made a snowwoman in the schoolyard. But local Education Ministry officials launched a probe into Coşkun for “appearing in a photograph that violates social values,” according to an April 7 report by daily Vatan.
Although officials did not clarify what exactly “violates social values,” the schoolchildren’s decision to emphasize the snowwoman’s breasts and apparently nude tummy could be the reason, a number of social media users argued.
The local branch of Eğitim-Sen, a teacher’s union, condemned the investigation and linked it to the death of Halil Serkan Öz, an award-winning teacher in the western province of Yalova who died due to a heart attack soon after he was reprimanded by a governor over his hair, beard and clothes.
“The mindset that insulted a TÜBİTAK award-winning teacher in Yalova over his clothes and the mindset that cannot tolerate a snowwoman in Nurhak are the manifestation of the same darkness,” the union’s statement said.
Coşkun has faced other ministry probes in the past for being an administrator of Eğitim-Sen in Nurhak.
Paging Rodney Carrington.
What would be a kid’s prank here can get you tortured or killed in some other countries.
Heck, that teacher ought to try to immigrate here here since we apparently have few moral codes or social values that are enforced any more.
:: a photo with her students ::
Hmmmmmm, sounds like a infielder who bats for the other team to me. Turkish officials might want to investigate “moral turpitude” issues?
Where's the beer?
Any statues in their museums that show the same or more?
I would hit that, spank it, film it and watch it later...
They should rise up & issue fatwa on those who make these crazy rules.
Surely by now some imaginative student has been permanently suspended from school for making a snowman (or snowwoman) holding, pointing and shooting a snow gun.
How’s that lose of American tourist dollars working out- like mine!
Forget it, Bill, she’s frigid.
Suppose they could have just thrown a Burka over it.
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“What would be a kid’s prank here can get you tortured or killed in some other countries.”
Some kid’s pranks common 40 years ago are now considered terrorism.
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