Turkish primary school pupils stand for a picture at the steps of the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, as Turkish honor guards stand in Ankara February 27, 2007.

"Happy is he who says he is a Turk," pipe the children in unison for a daily pledge of hard work and sacrifice. The enthusiastic chanting ends and the children file into school, past an inscription saying their first duty is to defend Turkey and another of the national anthem--texts which appear again on the classroom walls and preface all their textbooks. Turkish government has reformed the curriculum in a way teachers say makes students more active and reduces traditional rote learning, but the emphasis on nationalism remains.

土耳其一群小學生2月27日在老師陪同下，站在安卡拉土國國父凱末爾將軍陵墓石階上排排站照相，附近可以看到儀隊站崗。

「當土耳其人是快樂幸福的，」這些孩子同聲唱出他們每天要努力讀書、犧牲奉獻的誓言。在唱完熱血沸騰的愛國歌曲後，這些孩童排隊走到學校前，先行經一塊碑文，上面寫著他們的第一要務是捍衛土耳其，另外還有土耳其國歌歌詞，這也出現在教室牆壁上和他們教科書前言中。土耳其政府已將全部課程翻修，有些老師說，這可以使學生更活潑，並減少傳統死記硬背的填鴨式教育，但實則國家民族意識仍無所不在。