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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Turkey: Monumental Big Statism

"Turkey: Monumental Big Statism
January 12, 2011 - 2:48pm, by Yigal Schleifer

As Eurasianet's Nicholas Birch reported a few months ago, a large sculpture near the Turkish-Armenian border called 'The Monument to Humanity' was causing quite a stir in Kars, the city where it is being erected. Although the monument is supposed to serve as a symbol for Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, it has run into strong local opposition, much of it based on nationalist sentiments. "

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