No, male and female students should not live together “under one roof”, says the Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. Mixed dormitories should be abolished. Torpedoed the Conservative government, the chief co-educational education?

At German universities wafts the gender debate for decades. In good phases it has led to more justice, more respect. In bad it reduces to whether the internal-I produced in the professors voice of justice or whether it is not yet the gender gap must be Professor_innen. Particularly progressive argue for the flexible Gendering: The underscore accidentally falls somewhere in the word to emphasize no sex especially  so Mr Professor or Miss Professor.

At Turkish universities issue in the dispute about gender much more basic things. Long it was, for example, the question of whether women are allowed to enter the university building at all with headscarf. Now Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fueled the gender controversy in the Turkish education system with a new offense: He calls, male and female students should not live together “under one roof”.

Mind you, not Erdogan is outraged about mixed-sex dormitories or similar – it is always as good as ever in the conservative Turkey. It’s about student residences as that in Trabzon on the Black Sea, where men and women walk on the way to their rooms by the same staircase.

His conservative-democratic (turns islamic one ) government would not accept that unmarried students lived together, Erdogan lashed out several times. In three of the four state-owned dormitories gender segregation has already been completed by his words. With other forms of student housing, the Government would “intervene” out of their conservative beliefs.

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Apparently, Erdogan said that even student flat in cities such as Istanbul. The Premier announced that local authorities should investigate complaints about the cohabitation of unmarried students in private rooms. To determine such cases, should be resorted to information by security forces. That the investigators are not squeamish in dealing with students, they have shown time and again. Sometimes students end up in jail because they attended the concert of the wrong tape.

It is a further effort Erdogan to interfere in the private lives of its citizens, as it not only the opposition but also see it as Turkish students. Many fear: After the controversial Premier already the Turkish women recommended to get at least three children into the world, and after he left restrict the serving of alcohol, he is now aiming onto coeducational education.

The opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the CHP accused Erdogan of wanting to make Turkey a Middle East country where there is no common education for boys and girls more. His party spokesman Haluk Koc, seconded, Erdogan’s government wants to spy on citizens. The fear of going around the dorm question could only be a further step towards Islamization of Turkey.

The dispute has been raging for several days, Erdogan repeatedly railed against the cohabitation of unmarried young men and women. The “Wall Street Journal” wrote the blazing new “culture war” between conservative religious Erdogan’s supporters and Kemalists who defend the secular heritage of the Republic’s founder Ataturk. Not to forget all those sympathizers and members of Gezi Park movement that rose up against some months ago Erdogan.

The Prime Minister himself said on Wednesday not to issue, he traveled to Finland. Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag however, stressed the head of government was acting on the basis of the Constitution that the government was committed to protecting the youth. However, several Turkish newspapers quoted legal experts who spoke of a violation of fundamental rights.

In the meantime, began to have the police raid homes of student  some of the city governors order.

Moreover, the vast majority of students are of legal age in Turkey, the protection of minors is a rather strange argument since.