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Eugene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 08:18 AM Original message |
Turkish PM says wants to lift headscarf ban |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
1. promised a secular administration - then this - I doubt he'd been elected if said before election n/ |
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atreides1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
2. It always starts with something small. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 02:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Ignorant, don't you realize you are supporting the restriction |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 03:07 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. I'm sure he/she realizes it |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 03:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Where is your proof he lied? |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 03:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. We'll see |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 05:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. So he didn't lie |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 08:36 AM Response to Reply #10 |
28. You don't understand the situation there at all, they use the |
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arewenotdemo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 08:41 AM Response to Reply #9 |
29. Polite rejoinder, there. |
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Erva (178 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
3. They should have seen right through this guy. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
4. And so it begins... |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
5. Secular good. |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
6. Here's something I bet those who have commented don't know |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 01:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Because Christianity ceased being a threat when Byzantium fell |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 03:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. I see |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 03:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Your post is bizarre |
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Acadia Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
8. This is bad news. Religious insanty rears is head. |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 03:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Just for lifting a discriminatory ban? |
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leftynyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 03:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. You're on a site that happens to take |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 05:33 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. How is lifting a discriminatory ban equate to state sponsored religion? |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 08:45 AM Response to Reply #17 |
30. Mosque is not a church, a church is instutionalzied religion |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
13. Oh, great. The Turks need to keep their eyes out for creeping religious insanity. |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 03:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. They have more to worry about from the Kurds |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 06:20 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. The Kurds are no threat to the viability or secular nature of the Turkish state |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 11:29 AM Response to Reply #21 |
34. Wanting to tear apart the country isn't a threat to the viability of Turkey? |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-21-07 07:24 AM Response to Reply #21 |
39. Neither were the Armenians |
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Orrin_73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 02:36 AM Response to Reply #15 |
25. Kurds are not muslims????? where did you get that |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 11:28 AM Response to Reply #25 |
33. Yes, the Kurds are religious |
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Orrin_73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 06:01 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. They are very religious muslims |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
22. because the radical idea that women might be people is too radical for him |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
23. Two points: |
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Tempest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 11:31 AM Response to Reply #23 |
35. *Crickets* |
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Obamarama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-19-07 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
24. Somewhere in Ankara, Mustafa Kemal is rolling over in his grave... |
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Orrin_73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 02:39 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Mustafa Kemal's mother and sister also wore headscarves |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 11:19 AM Response to Reply #26 |
32. Headscarves only outlaws in 1982, as the Army feared reforms |
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Orrin_73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 06:14 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. Headscarves were outlawed only in public |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 06:06 AM Response to Original message |
27. The army just ticked off a little box on a piece of paper somewhere. |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
31. Some background on Turkey and Secularism". |
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Orrin_73 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 06:07 PM Response to Reply #31 |
37. You are full of nonsense |
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