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ISTANBUL, chicken — From phoning for a Buddhist temple to a spot of worship for Jedis, Turkish students have discovered an unique option to oppose controversial plans to develop mosques on their campuses within the officially secular nation.

Pupils at Istanbul Specialized University (ITU) have launched an online petition on change.org sarcastically urging the building of a Buddhist temple responding to a plan to construct a mosque.

Though Turkey doesn't have considerable Buddhist neighborhood, by Friday the petition had gathered nearly 20, 000 signatures.

If mosque is built, it would be the first such building built on an university campus because the 2002 arrival in energy of this Justice and Development Party (AKP) co-founded by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Islamic-rooted government is definitely accused of wanting to enforce religion on Turkey’s mainly Muslim, but formally secular society, and Islamisizing the education system.

“We would also like a Buddhist temple! Help united states!” says the petition.

Contemporary chicken ended up being established in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as a strictly secular condition, despite its overwhelmingly Muslim populace.

An Equivalent conflict has shaken the university of Izmir University on the Aegean shore in which students have released a petition seeking the development of a temple the Jedi knights through the film “Star Wars”.

“We wish a Jedi temple. You will see a Jedi Council in the temple, and we'll teach and raise brand new Jedis, ” it said.

By Friday, the petition had attracted over 6, 500 signatures.

“An institute of higher education should keep a distance from all religions and not be near one faith alone, ” Zeynep Ozkatip, just who established the Istanbul initiative, told Turkish paper Hurriyet constant Information.