To: Cindy
Turkey needs a new Ataturk, someone to grab it by the collar and forcibly drag it into the ranks of civilized nations.
The current Islamic fervor shows the limits of democracy. The great majority of urban and middle-class Turks support secularism. But the huge majority of the Anatolian koylus--urban Turks ttranslate it as "country bumpkins"-- support Islamist parties.
Turkey is going to get worse before it gets better.
20 posted on
02/17/2010 8:20:26 AM PST by
denydenydeny
("Leftists are like vampires; shine a light on what they are doing and they retreat."-Andrew Klavan)
To: denydenydeny
The problem is US support for the islamists. You guys are shooting yourselves in the foot at best.
21 posted on
02/17/2010 8:40:49 AM PST by
a_Turk
(Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence, Justice)
To: denydenydeny
You want another ataturk? That is sick.
It was Kemal Mustafa aka ataturk - the pedophile - who butchered 4 million Christians.
22 posted on
02/21/2010 8:23:46 AM PST by
eleni121
(For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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