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...limit to setting aside national pride, especially if the ultimate goal of full EU membership is removed After many years of imposed secularization by their own government, polls of the Turkish people show that they agree wth this premise. Turkey was westernized in the 1920’s by Kemal Attatürk (whose name literally means “Father of the Nation”). Many of his policies, like democratic reforms and well designed economic programs, were unequivocally positive. In fact, Turkey gave women voting rights before Spain or France, two current EU nations. Yet, amidst the decaying...
...Kemal kerincsiz has a formidable intelligence. At Istanbul's top law school, he graduated with the best grades ever; now he is applying his smarts to a different cause. He is fighting to stop his motherland from joining the European Union. Kerinçsiz's strategy is simple: to try to block the reforms that the E.U. is imposing by rallying Turkish nationalists to his cause. Late last month, by seeking a last-minute injunction, he almost succeeded in shutting down a conference on the mass killings of Armenians in 1915, one of the most brutal episodes in Turkish history...
...time bomb" that ignited simmering ethnic tensions. But the decision also pits those who want to Westernize the country's judicial and political systems to speed E.U. accession against Turkish nationalists, many of whose idea of "Turkishness" dates back to the days of the nation's founding father, Kemal Ataturk, and which they insist is threatened by European reforms. Others go further back, citing Ottoman imperial might. When General Hilmi Ozkok, head of the powerful Turkish military, heard of the ruling, he complained obliquely...
...repression of other minorities—the Armenians and the Jews come immediately to mind—the Kurds are unique in that they have no state of their own. They were promised a state in the Treaty of Sevres in the aftermath of the First World War, but Kemal Ataturk’s ascension to power in Turkey prevented this from happening...
...principal characters, many with no personal relationships between them. One chapter, for instance, gives you a long first-person commentary from traveling businessman Georgio P. Theodorou, who is rarely glimpsed again. The next is a third-person history lesson about the plots and machinations of Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Then come the musings of beautiful but simple Telmessos resident Philothei. Three chapters about people who are thousands of miles apart and will never meet. There are 625 pages and 101 chapters of this sort of cross-cutting. It's enough to make you want to throw the book across...