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To: NonZeroSum
Ataturk's assumption of power happened smoothly. The Turks of the Ottoman Empire and the Turks of today are one and the same, only there are a lot fewer Christians surviving: Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, etc. etc.

The Turks are not only proud of themselves but they actually deny anything ever happened. They twist, distort, and rewrite their history blaming the victims of their holocaust.

The American expansion in the new world has nothing in common with what happened in Turkey in the 20th century! The American expansion came about through a series of wars, treaties, and yes, terror on both sides of the aisle. The Turks obliterated innocents by the millions and the terror was committed by them alone. The Cold War is over and I wish the US would send the Turks to hell! They allied themselves with the Nazis and the Germans in both wars and Turkey was the first nation to recognize the Bolshevik regime.

The evidence is all there and I will be happy to enlighten you by sending you websites and titles if you wish. But I am sure you can find the information yourself.

20 posted on 10/25/2001 7:42:53 PM PDT by eleni121
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To: eleni121
The evidence is all there and I will be happy to enlighten you by sending you websites and titles if you wish. But I am sure you can find the information yourself.

You continue to miss the point. I never claimed that Turkey was a model society. I was only disputing the statement that it is not possible to have a secular state with an Islamic populace. It is indeed possible to separate church and state, even in Islam.

21 posted on 10/26/2001 10:39:48 AM PDT by NonZeroSum
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