Posted on 05/26/2005 6:56:58 AM PDT by Doctor13
PRISTINA (AA) - Filizler Turkish Cultural and Arts Association (TKSD), one of Kosovo's most active cultural associations, is organizing a ''Turkish Cultural Week'' in Kosovo for the first time in history.
Sponsored by the Kosovo Cultural, Youth and Sports Ministry, a painting exhibition of Kosovo Turkish Writers Association Chairman Zeynel Beksac has opened and poems were read, accompanied by ''Filizler'' pianists.
TKSD Chairman Ferhat Dervis delivered a speech indicating that they will do every thing to keep Turkish culture alive in the region. ''We expect more support from Turkey and want to make the Turkish cultural week an annual event,'' said Dervis.
Among other cities and towns where Turkish activities are taking place are Prizren, Mamusha and Gnjilane.
It took the Serbs over 400 years to throw off the Turkish yoke. The eradication of Serbia's Jerusalem continues with the approval of the Western powers.
That would be slavery, raping and killing of the infidels for 400 years...
What's it gonna take?? How do the American people get a handle on this one?
'Mein Kampf' becomes bestseller in Turkey Publisher: 'The times we live in have a definite impact on sales'
Eighty years after Adolf Hitler published his autobiographical manifesto, 'Mein Kampf,' the book that launched European Nazism, is climbing the best-seller charts in Muslim Turkey.
Since publication in January, the book has risen to number four on the best-seller list of the D&R bookstore chain, selling over 50,000 copies.
While most Turkish publishers of 'Mein Kampf' say they are merely pursuing the profit motive, others admit that anti-Semitic and anti-American feelings are fueling demand.
Sami Kilic, owner of the Emre publishing house, has sold 26,000 copies of the book from a printing of 31,000 in January. "Mostly young people" are reading it, he says.
Turkey's bid to join the European Union, rising anti-Americanism over the war in Iraq and hostility towards Israel over perceived treatment of Palestinians have made readers curious about Hitler's work, Kilic notes. "The times we live in have a definite impact on sales. It is an astonishing phenomenon," he told Germany's Deutsche Welle.
"This book, which does not contain a single ounce of humanity, unfortunately appears to be taken seriously in this country," political scientist Dogu Ergil recently told a newspaper interviewer. "Nazism, buried in the dustbin of history in Europe, is beginning to re-emerge in Turkey," he warned.
"There has been no objective reason for anti-Semitic feelings to crop up in Turkey," Ergil adds, "However, some feel there is an international conspiracy led by what they call the crusaders – meaning the U.S. and maybe the West in general and the Zionists."
Ergil notes that Hitler's image in Turkey has always been one of "a criminal" or "a maniac."
"Mein Kampf" has been published numerous times over the years in Turkey, but the recent edition's cut-rate price – $4.50 versus the usual $15.00 a copy – has contributed to its current success.
The head of Turkey's 22,000-strong Jewish community has complained to the publishers to no avail and expresses astonishment that "a 500-page book that sows the seeds of racism and anti-Semitism can sell at such a low price."
Istanbul, where most of the nation's Jews live, was the site of two car bombings of synagogues in November 2003. The blasts, blamed on an al-Qaida-linked group, killed 25.
I wonder if this will include a celebration of Dhimmitude for the few remaining Serbs and Roma?
Call me crazy, but I'm willing to bet that the Serbs in Kosovo have had their fill of Turkish culture.
Islam adores facism, price is a mere detail.
You people need help.
From the Turks? No thank you.
Do you happen to know how many Croats are left in Kosovo and what their role in society is there? Thanks.
Why would there be Croats in Kosovo?
I just got back from Italy where my daughter is studying. She has met a Croat from Kosovo and he says his father works in a commune there. I'm trying to understand the situation there. I have read that there are several hundred of them left, but I don't understand that one would be thus employed. Their situation is so complicated that I'm having a hard time understanding it as an outsider.
Thanks. I knew that I had heard from people on FR before with a knowledge of that area.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.