"Identity politics: Is a Christian or Kurd 'a Turk'?
By Yigal Schleifer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
ISTANBUL � An advisory council report that calls on the country to broaden its official definition of minorities and to embrace multiculturalism is stirring a bitter public debate here about national identity.
It has become so heated, in fact, that when the head of the council tried to present the document at a press conference Nov. 1, another council member tore the notes out of his hands and publicly denounced the report, forcing the event to be canceled."
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