In Turkish textbooks, Mount Ararat is noted only with its Turkish name "Agri Dagh."
In textbooks prepared in 2007 by Turkey’s Ministry of Education for grade 11 students, the biblical mountain is named not “Agri Dagh” but “Ararat”; however, according to Fhrat agency, Turkey’s nationalist voices protested against this decision, after which the textbooks were collected and the name changed from “Ararat” to “Aghur Dagh.”
Earlier, nationalist individuals in Turkey had protested against Google Earth’s naming of the mountain as “Ararat” and demanded that the education minister interfere in that affair as well.
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