A painting of me

Secular Turks say, "We don't want an imam in the presidential palace." ⇒

   18 April 2007, late at night

Lucky for them, more often than not, neither does the army. Turkey is an interesting country. I have to go visit one day.

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Comments

  1. I want to visit Turkey someday too. I’m not sure my Mom will like that idea though – my cousin got deported from there in 2004.

    by Ryan on April 19 2007, 1:31 am   #

  2. turkey recently prevented a bill being passed in the UN about the armenian genocide of 1915 and also stopped an exhibition from happening at the UN regarding the rwandan genocide because the exhibition referred to the massacre of the armenians in 1915 as a genocide…they may not want an imam in their presidential palace…most countries in the region don’t…but ‘they’ also don’t want a fascist state…secular or otherwise.

    by banu on April 19 2007, 3:36 am   #

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