Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
Earth’s First Jedi Temple To Be Built
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April 10, 2015
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April 10, 2015
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3:30Now Playing"Thousands of Turkish students have petitioned their university to build a Jedi temple, in response to an increase in the number of mosques being built on campuses across the country.
The country-wide online debate started last month after the rector of Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) Mehmet Karaca announced that a “landmark mosque” would be built on the university campus, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily reported.
Almost 200,000 thousand students have signed an online petition calling for the creation of the mosque on the campus, leading to more than 20,000 İTÜ students starting a similar petition calling for a Buddhist temple.
Meanwhile, at Dokuz Eylül University in the western province of Izmir, more than 5,000 students have called for a Jedi Temple."
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Cenk Uygur () and Ana Kasparian () break it down on The Young Turks.
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