SCENES FROM ERDOGAN’S TURKEY: Turkey suspends over 11,000 teachers for suspected terror links.

At least 11,285 schoolteachers across the country were suspended over suspected links to a separatist terrorist organization, Anadolu reported Thursday, citing Turkey’s Education Ministry.

That number could reach 14,000 during an investigation conducted in coordination with governors’ offices across the country, Anadolu reported.

Although the ministry did not specify the group, the term “separatist terrorist organization” usually refers to the Kurdistan worker’s party, or PKK.

Later, a senior Turkish official confirmed to CNN that the “separatist organization” is PKK.

It isn’t Kurdish schoolteachers Ankara should be worried about, but Kurdish schoolchildren. Turks are no longer breeding at even replacement levels, with a fertility rate of just 1.5. Kurds make up an estimated 18-25% of the country, but are producing children three times faster than the Turks are. Spengler wrote a while back that Turkey’s demographics mean that Erdogan is “inherently incapable of rationality,” and so you have to wonder if his War on Kurdish Teachers is a new part of Ankara’s longstanding effort to deny Kurdish identity.