Turkey: Syrian Territory

Syrian territory: Seventy-five years ago, Turkey annexed the northern Syrian territory of Hatay, but maps in Syrian schoolbooks during the Assad family reign have continued to include Hatay inside Syrias borders. The maps in the new schoolbooks show Hatay in Turkey, one of a number of political changes made by the Syrian opposition group that published the books, according to The Star. The new textbooks are an attempt by those in the uprising against Assad to offer a competing narrative and are the beginning of their efforts to rewrite the nations history after what they view as more than 40 years of lies and half-truths and ANTAKYA, TURKEY In newly printed textbooks at dozens of Syrian refugee schools, a small piece of Middle East geography has been amended. In President Bashar Assads Syria, society was built on a fealty to the Baath Party ideology, a one-party system whose influence could be seen at the lowest levels of grade school, where textbooks were tools of propaganda. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.