"The Republic of Melancholy
Cengiz Candar
ccandar@superonline.com
30 October 2006
83 year of age is an old age for a human being. It could be considered as adolescence for states. The Republic of Turkey celebrated its 83rd anniversary in the usual fanfare and rituals. It was a remarkable event, in which Turkey presented both, paradoxically, a senility that could be expected from an old man and the immaturity from a teenager."
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