Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Eyes of Zana

“As a matter of fact only one moment explained the whole story; when she [Leyla Zana] raised her head looking at the audience in Parliament after taking her oath. The expression in her eyes reflected her misery of being insulted and a looking down on those who insulted her by making her to read the oath. In my opinion, the Kurdish question is hidden in that moment of her look. She is a Kurd. They are forcing her to read the oath that emphasizes Turkishness. No one has the right to do that to anyone,” Altan [Ahmet Altan, the editor-in-chief of the Taraf daily] says.
How sad really! How hypocritical of Turkey to treat 16 million people, 22% of its population, this way and have the audacity to preach Cypriots how to structure their home and the relations between their majority and minority population segments?

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