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 Turks Rally for Secularism in GovernmentPosted on Apr 29, 2007
Crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands gathered Sunday for a pro-secularism rally in Istanbul, calling for a secularist democracy in Turkey amid concerns that presidential candidate Abdullah Gul, whose Justice and Development Party has Islamist ties, will let his beliefs influence his actions if he wins the election.
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By nyoped, April 30, 2007 at 5:49 pm #
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Niloroth,
We, Turks, will never let Islamists control Turkey or imperialists wipe us from the face of the earth.
I know it is really difficult to find history books on Ottomans/Turks in US but try to get several (impartial) ones -then you will learn that we have tattooed freedom into our DNA thousands years ago (no cleaning) and secularism almost a century ago (no Islamists).
And stop trying to rename old concepts. What US faces is religious-based terrorism and the risk for Turkey is called semi-theocracy.
Do you really want to wipe out a nation? You sound like half-nazi/fascist and half muslim terrorist. Sorry but you are no diffent than them -only difference is you were born in a relatively stable and free country.
Report thisBy Leefeller, April 30, 2007 at 8:03 am #
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I wish the people of Turkey well, they may have a secular government before we do.
Report thisBy THOMAS BILLIS, April 30, 2007 at 6:53 am #
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What a novel idea keeping religion out of government.Where have I heard that before?I know it is not in America,when 150 graduates of Pat Robertson’s law school can instantly find employment in the upper echelons of government.This thing in Turkey about keeping religion out of government may catch on. Maybe we ought to send observers and if it is successful maybe we could try it here.
Report thisBy KenDen, April 29, 2007 at 5:35 pm #
Just imagine, a country that wants to keep religion out of government and politics. What a novel concept. Maybe we can learn something from Turkey.
Report thisBy niloroth, April 29, 2007 at 4:09 pm #
Any one want to place bets on Turkey voting to become less secular in the next year? The fact of the mater is that we will at some point have to face the islamo-fascists, and if we are not ready to wipe them from the face of the earth, we will lose.
The question is, do we face them as a christo-facist country, or a country that believes in freedom of religion and freedom from religion as well.
Report thisBy Mar Del Zur, April 29, 2007 at 3:57 pm #
I’m trying to imagine what kind of comment the right-wing theocrats in this country would have about this…
On the one hand they would applaud it, because it keeps the “islamofascists” out of power; at the same time they don’t want to cheer to much for secular government, since it would be quite acceptable to them to install a similar “christian” government in the U.S…
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