Turkey - Non-Muslim Armenian students, with failing grades placed in Islamic high schools.

Non-Muslim Armenian students, with failing grades placed in Islamic high schools. HT: TodaysZaman.

Two non-Muslim students have been automatically enrolled in imam-hatip high schools -- which provide Islamic religious education -- after they received low marks on the Transition from Primary to Secondary Education (TEOG) exam held in June, a media report has revealed.

According to a report by the Hürriyet daily, one of the students, Arda Christof A., an ethnic Armenian, received a score of 257.3422 on the exam -- too low to enter schools other than imam-hatip high schools -- and was automatically enrolled in the school, prompting a negative reaction by the student and his family.

All eighth grade students who will enroll in high schools in Turkey must take the TEOG exam, forcing them to make a choice between two options if they fail to get high enough scores on the exam: vocational schools or imam-hatip schools. And if they fail to choose one, most are automatically enrolled in imam-hatip high schools.


Hmmmm....Makes me wonder, you don't need grades to become a Turkish Imam?Read the full story here.