Religious Necropolitical Propaganda in Educational Materials for Children

Even though Turkey’s ruling party’s (Justice and Development Party, the AKP) nation-building desired citizen creation policies have been studied, its use of necropolitical narratives propaganda in education has not investigated. This paper addresses this gap by examining how Turkish state ruled AKP propagated religious narrative through national curriculum Directorate Religious Affairs (Diyanet) school textbooks, magazines comic books for children. The shows that these texts comics try to indoctrinate children into a cult martyrdom different ways encouraging them view tragic death getting killed nation as positive event. argues efforts are part indoctrination campaign seeks create new Islamist jihadist generation lifelong supporters AKP, which portrays itself educational embodiment Islam, Muslim even global community (ummah). is expected believe dying populist authoritarian regime greatest honour person can bring upon themselves. contributes necropolitics literature showing only adults but also targeted rulers’ attempts citizens who ready die regime, believing obligation. Further research needed assess if what extent an impact on