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Turkey: Reading the Runes - International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

Turkey: Reading the Runes

Sunday 10 March 2019, by Uraz Aydin

Hats with the inscription “Turkish” in runic letters, wolf head tattoos – a rallying sign of ultra-nationalism – pendants and bracelets in the shape of a swastika openly sold on the street. The symbols of a nationalism of ethnicist and racist inspiration are in vogue especially among urban and secular youth anxious to differentiate their patriotism from the Islamic-Turkish nationalism of the Erdogan regime.

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