(Istanbul) Istanbul Lisesi, is a German funded high school
founded more than a century ago, it employs around 35 German teachers. Each
December, the school has a small celebration for Christmas and teaches pupils
about the holiday. One week after the school's choir was prevented from singing
at the German consulate in Istanbul, the school on orders from the Islamist
Turkish government has cancelled any form of Christmas festivities including
even mentioning Christmas at all.
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"Die Welt", depicted Erdogan as
the fiendish Grinch as stealing
Christmas.
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The move has been seen by German politicians as part of a larger
change under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan away from secularism across Turkey
towards Islamic sharia law .
