Turkey renames Central Asia 'Turkistan' in school curriculum - Turkish Minute

Turkey’s Textbook Shift Signals Bolder Pan-Turkic Ambitions

Turkey’s education ministry has formally decided to replace the term “Central Asia” with “Turkistan” in the national school curriculum, in a move Ankara says is meant to reinforce unity across the “Turkic world.” Education Minister Yusuf Tekin announced in Ankara that from now on, the region long taught to Turkish pupils as Orta Asya will appear in textbooks as Türkistan. He framed the change as part of the new “Türkiye Yüzyılı Maarif Modeli” (C…

Turkey renames Central Asia 'Turkistan' in school curriculum - Turkish Minute

Turkey has replaced the term Central Asia with Turkistan in its national school curriculum. Education Minister Yusuf Tekin announced the change in Ankara and said the new name will support unity in what the government calls the Turkic world. Tekin said the ministry is removing geographical terms that he described as having imperial roots and said the curriculum should reflect Turkey’s own historical vocabulary. He said earlier governments allowe…