"How Turks see the pope - II
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Mustafa Akyol
ISTANBUL - Turkish Daily News
Among those Turkish nationalists who do not welcome Pope Benedict XVI, the third category would be secular nationalists, who are in line with the anti-EU forces in Turkey's civil and military bureaucracy. They see the whole West as an imperialist enemy dying to carve Turkey into pieces by re-implementing the infamous Treaty of Sèvres -- a 1920 document that only a handful of non-Turkish historians but the whole Turkish nation remembers. For them Pope Benedict XVI is simply the religious face of �Western imperialism.� His effort to consolidate Christianity is interpreted as the preparation for a new Crusade. "
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