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The Bundestag wants to fight Turkish right-wing extremism in Germany.

To this end, a broad parliamentary majority has now called on the federal government to ban organizations of the so-called “gray wolves” and “idealist associations”.

As the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has warned for many years, this movement is racist, anti-democratic and anti-Semitic.

The ban on associations like ADÜTDF is long overdue.

After all, according to the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Turkish right-wing extremist groups have a good 18,000 members nationwide - more than any other right-wing extremist organization.

A ban would not be enough.

Far more people of Turkish origin are infected by the sentiments of the “gray wolves” than just these activists, warn democratic forces.

“The ideology of the gray wolves does not simply vanish into thin air,” warns the Essen scholar Burak Çopur.

What is needed is "an educational initiative that counteracts the propaganda of Turkish nationalism effectively".

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia has a lot to do here.

Over a million people of Turkish origin live there.

This makes NRW the nationwide center of Turkish life.

The fight against Turkish right-wing extremists should be started, especially in schools.

Because apparently the agitation of the “gray wolves” reaches children or grandchildren of Turkish immigrants born here.

They too take on bad images of the enemy, insult or threaten classmates who belong to groups that are persecuted in Turkey and despised by nationalists.

Alevis, Kurds and Armenians have been complaining about this for a long time.

No wonder, after all, this hate speech is also spread through many Turkish media.

That is why Çopur is now suggesting that topics such as the Armenian genocide, the Kurdish question or Alevi pogroms be included in local curricula.

For some Germans without a history of immigration, this may sound like getting used to - why should local children learn how ethnic and religious groups are persecuted in Eastern Anatolia?

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The answer is simple: Because the proportion of students of Turkish origin is higher than that of the total population.

Almost 50 percent of all students under the age of 15 in NRW have a history of immigration.

Anyone who wants a peaceful future for our country must also fight agitation among students with foreign ancestors.

This realisation is not new.

The former Green School Minister Sylvia Löhrmann already presented a concept for a culture of remembrance.

This recommended that mass murders and persecution abroad should be discussed more in class - the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, for example.

Unfortunately Löhrmann left it at the first step, the recommendation.

The black and yellow state government could now take the second step and make binding requirements.

It could help our schools to arrive in the immigrant society.

This text is from WELT AM SONNTAG.

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Source: WELT AM SONNTAG