[dhruvrrp]

21,000 teachers and 1.5k deans. This is the kind of thing that pushes the education system and thus the country back a decade.

How are they gonna find replacements? How are the students gonna cope without teachers? What is Erdogan trying to do..

[TheGuyWhoCodes]

Replacement? Why not clerics? He is trying to turn the country to an Islamic state with him as the Sultan.

[zymhan]

> What is Erdogan trying to do

In his convoluted thinking, he's trying to stop the spread of an anti-establishment political organization that has infiltrated all levels of the Turkish military and civil service.

Or, you know, they're reasonable people who are concerned about the dimming of their country's democracy.

[jayess]

Only a decade? More like decades. He's doing what all despots do.

[rimantas]

What's a decade when the aim is for XVI century.

[wheaties]

Educated people ask questions. He doesn't want an educated populace.

[colejohnson66]

While that is true, look at North Korea. Everyone is taught from birth that their Gloious Leader is, in a sense, God. However, people who've escaped have said that when they got old enough to actually think for themselves, they figured out it was a lie but couldn't do anything.

http://www.craveonline.com/design/869309-north-korean-defect...

> Well, it's hard to say. Yes and no. Because if you're talking about nowadays North Koreans, it's a little bit hard for me to say that a majority of North Koreans believe propaganda. But I do think that older generations definitely believe government propaganda, because in the 1970's, economically the North Koreans were better off than South Korea, but after the 1990s famine, things have proven that it is not the best country in the world as the government or state claim, because how can you accept the propaganda when your best friend dies of starvation? So I think nowadays more and more people are critical of government propaganda, but I can't say what all North Koreans do now.

[PopsiclePete]

I grew up in Eastern Europe in the 80's. No internet, but it was still impossible to stop the flow of information, even a little bit, that the West wasn't this horrible, terrifying place. People are not stupid, but they know when to shut up.

[venomsnake]

Please - let us push Turkey back a decade - Erdogan was stoppable back then and the military was secular.

I think you are thinking a century. Like pre Kemal.

[jdubs]

What ever he's trying to do will be terrific!