"Police beatings continue
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Mehmet Ali Birand
We have a wonderful national psychology.
We may behave completely inappropriately or we may have faced an incident that angered us. We usually are willing to punish those responsible without any due procedure.
However, when the same type of criticism comes from overseas, we become lions defending our cubs. We try to defend those responsible.
The same thing happened when the police beat up the protestors.
When the European Union criticized the Turkish police, all of us, from ministers to the most liberal commentators reacted very harshly.
�Their police also beat up protestors. Let them first look at themselves.� "
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