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Turkey Talk
By Christopher Orlet
Published 2/18/2005 12:05:20 AM
There is an old Turkish saying, 'Tell me who your friend is, and I'll tell you who you are.' Turks today must be very confused about their identity. On the one hand they are ardent allies of Europe, Israel, and America. On the other, they remain firmly ensconced inside the mind-walls of the Islamic world.
Modern Turkey is a land of numerous nations and countless cultures where traditional Muslims occupy the countryside and pro-Europe urbanites inhabit the cities. Not to mention the Kurds, Jews, even a few Orthodox Christians. The only secular republic in the Islamic world, it suffers alienation of affection from both its Islamic co-religionists and mistrustful Europeans."
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