Saturday, May 27, 2006

Hürriyet - Tufan Türenc:Foreign press which Erdogan must read

"Tufan Türenc:Foreign press which Erdogan must read

Prime Minister Erdogan is not correctly interpreting either the events which have occured recently, or the criticisms aimed at him and his administration.

Politicians do not seem to be able to recover from this annoying disease of 'not being able to see correctly.' But ok, just for the sake of argument, let's say that we have ulterior motives in our criticisms, and that we are really being unfair to his government. But then we advise him to read the short but very important passages from the Western press which refer to how he is doing. The following is from Le Monde, one of the world's most serious newspapers:

'Since the conservative-Islamic AKP came to power 3.5 years ago, it has not been the recepient of such booing as it now has in Turkey. Tens of thousands of soldiers, judges, lawyers, scientists, and regular citizens filled the streets in Ankara to stand up for secularity, and to accuse the AKP of undermining the republic.' "

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