A/55/280/Add.1 for implementing them, must not affect religious communities, and in particular minority religious communities, whether in their enjoyment of their rights, including religious rights (deriving either from minority status or from citizenship) or in their ability to integrate naturally into Turkish society, of which they are a fundamental component, and they must be allowed to maintain their own identity; (g) Minority religious communities should be protected from any political manipulation in the context of Turkey’s foreign affairs; (h) The Government should undertake a true dialogue with minority religious communities so as better to understand their needs and to promote a climate of respect and trust; (i) The Government should provide for the effective protection and promotion of religious diversity, by ensuring respect for diversity both between and within different religions. It is particularly important that the State should allow room for the Alawis to express their religion; (j) A broad campaign should be undertaken to educate and sensitize society and its different components to the values and principles of tolerance and of non-discrimination with respect to minority religious communities and to counter religious fanaticism, whether in the media, in the schools (curricula and textbooks) or in political debate. In this respect, it is particularly important for the Government to ensure that religious instruction, whatever the religion concerned, provided in public and private institutions alike is such as to foster tolerance and nondiscrimination and that it is not used to promote extremism and intolerance; (k) Turkey should take advantage of the technical cooperation services of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the area of freedom of religion and belief, with particular attention to minorities. 30

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