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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Turkish book on Darwin sparks outrage


By Daniel Dombey in Istanbul and Funja Guler in Ankara
A series of books for primary schoolchildren, describing Charles Darwin as a Jew with a big nose who kept the company of monkeys and other historical figures in anti-Semitic terms, has caused outrage in Turkey amid fears of rising religious intolerance.
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