The Ministry of Education in Cyprus instructed the teachers of public schools to remove a controversial page from the English language schoolbooks. The teachers unexpectedly reacted to this rather archaic method of censorship, so the Ministry ordered instead the withdrawal of the offensive books. The text that sparked the outrage was a small vocabulary exercise about Kemal Atatürk, which described the positive image of in the Turkish Republic of its first president.
In my opinion, this is a clear case of censorship for the sake of nationalist political correctness and rather embarrassing for a country that has joined the European Union. It doesn't seem to be an isolated case either. A few months ago, a headmaster was investigated and censured by the Ministry of Education. The reason was that the Orthodox Church and the association of the EOKA veterans [a terrorist group responsible for murdering hundreds of Cypriot (both Turkish and Greek) and British civilians] complained that his paintings were blasphemous and lacking in "national spirit'.
So, although last summer there were misleading news about ancient Greek being removed from the curriculum for the sake of "racial equity", it looks like the hit to a free and unbiased education came from the opposite side. Do you think that controversies like the Kemal affair in Cyprus indicate a return to obscurantism or are they a sign of gradual progress being made, despite the protests of society's most reactionary elements?