The Minister and the Monkey

Recently a group of Turkish students were arrested because they led protests against a new law that would restrict universities’ nature as independent institutions of research. After the students’ release the minister for youth and sport Suat Kılıç offered to discuss bilaterally with the student representative Emre Ersel Erbaş.

Student: There can’t be any censorship on research. The freedom of science must be guaranteed and can’t be restricted by any means.

Minister: Of course I will censor science, and of course I will censor evolution theory. Do you believe in evolution? Did you derive from a monkey? Up there and over all there is God!

Sometimes evolution just stops at the level of monkeys or even before. And sometimes a haircut might distort that sort of mind.

Turkish Minister for Youth and Sport talks to Student