NAME "ARARAT" REMOVED FROM TURKISH TEXTBOOKS IN REFERENCE TO BIBLICAL MOUNTAIN
Tert.am
13:42 ~U 29.01.10
In Turkish textbooks, Mount Ararat is noted only with its Turkish name
"Aghur Dagh."
In textbooks prepared in 2007 by Turkey’s Ministry of Education for
grade 11 students, the biblical mountain is named not "Aghur Dagh" but
"Ararat"; however, according to Fhrat agency, Turkey’s nationalist
voices protested against this decision, after which the textbooks
were collected and the name changed from "Ararat" to "Aghur Dagh."
Earlier, nationalist individuals in Turkey had protested against
Google Earth’s naming of the mountain as "Ararat" and demanded that
the education minister interfere in that affair as well.