Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by David Bloom on Tue, 04/05/2005 - 02:03.
The pressures referred to are probably Turkish Hezbollah, which persecuted Christians in the 80's and 90's, plus GAP, the damming & irrigation project. The article does not claim this is still happening. Kurds, for example, are 90% in favor of EU ascension because it will guarantee their minority rights, especially language. There is an element of reaction and reluctance in giving up sovereignity that is causing resurgent nationalism currently in Turkey. The Turks are used to a powerful, omniscient centralized ethno-nationalist state, and EU ascension threatens that. The subservience to a state and nostalgia for a powerful fascistic leader may explain the popularity of Mein Kampf in Turkey better than resurgent anti-Semitism.
The nationalism manifested itself recently when two Kurdish boys burned a Turkish flag, and it sparked a frenzy of flag waving. A state prosecuter ruled that a ceremonial cake could not be cut because it had the Turkish flag on it.
EU ascension is also forcing the Turks to confront the Armenian genocide, referred to as the "alleged genocide" in all media in Turkey. Noted Turkish auteur Orhan Pamuk recently referred to "the Armenian genocide" in an interview with a Swiss paper, and was roundly condemned for it. The administrative head of one Turkish district ordered that all Pamuk's books in the public libraries be destroyed, but then it turned out that district had no Pamuk books. A student there was followed because she was believed to be reading a Pamuk book, but a search of her bag showed it not to be true.
And yes, the baklava rules, as does the burek.
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The pressures referred to are probably Turkish Hezbollah, which persecuted Christians in the 80's and 90's, plus GAP, the damming & irrigation project. The article does not claim this is still happening. Kurds, for example, are 90% in favor of EU ascension because it will guarantee their minority rights, especially language. There is an element of reaction and reluctance in giving up sovereignity that is causing resurgent nationalism currently in Turkey. The Turks are used to a powerful, omniscient centralized ethno-nationalist state, and EU ascension threatens that. The subservience to a state and nostalgia for a powerful fascistic leader may explain the popularity of Mein Kampf in Turkey better than resurgent anti-Semitism.
The nationalism manifested itself recently when two Kurdish boys burned a Turkish flag, and it sparked a frenzy of flag waving. A state prosecuter ruled that a ceremonial cake could not be cut because it had the Turkish flag on it.
EU ascension is also forcing the Turks to confront the Armenian genocide, referred to as the "alleged genocide" in all media in Turkey. Noted Turkish auteur Orhan Pamuk recently referred to "the Armenian genocide" in an interview with a Swiss paper, and was roundly condemned for it. The administrative head of one Turkish district ordered that all Pamuk's books in the public libraries be destroyed, but then it turned out that district had no Pamuk books. A student there was followed because she was believed to be reading a Pamuk book, but a search of her bag showed it not to be true.
And yes, the baklava rules, as does the burek.