Friday, November 16, 2012

Turkey's talk of reinstating the death penalty is sending out mixed signals | Elif Shafak | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Turkey's talk of reinstating the death penalty is sending out mixed signals

With EU membership and a Kurdish compromise being debated, the Turkish government may be playing to the nationalist gallery

In a poem entitled All of a Sudden, the Turkish poet Orhan Veli writes: "Everything happened all of a sudden… Roads, moors, cats, people… and there was love all of a sudden…"

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