Friday, August 19, 2011

Understanding Turkey 101

Half of Turkey believes in the invulnerability of the so called 'Father of the Turks' and the other half in that of the 'New Father of the Turks'. Each half hates the other with a passion. Both "religions" are laughable to anyone with western logic and reason capacities.

Now, the other third of the country
are Kurds, forced to be called Turks, "forced" to adopt Turkish names and forced to speak Turkish. This third is trying to reason with a majority, the 50+50, a majority molded in militaristic fascism and religious conservatism respectively. Fat chance of them succeeding.

The real concern however is that the third won't take it any more. It will be interesting as the third speaks Turkish too, lives in Turkish cities including Ankara and Istanbul & has had just about enough! If the third decides to become an enemy in the open, how would you tell apart the third from the two 50s?


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Turkey's Kurds & Cyprus' tCypriots

As either unitary state or federation solutions are discussed as replacements to Cyprus' 1960 and Turkey's 1923 unworkable constitutions, should we abide by "if a right is a right too many for Turkey's Kurdish community (circa 23% of population) then that right is a right too many for Cyprus' tCypriot community too (circa 15%), and vice versa." Is the adoption of this fair logic the catalyst to securing just solutions for both UN countries.