Word: koranic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mustapha Kemal announced that hereafter statues of national heroes may be erected in Turkish cities. Immediate interest is aroused because this decision is in direct contravention of the teachings of the Koran, as interpreted in Turkey for the last 1,200 years. During that time sculpture which represented men or animals has been forbidden in all Mohammedan countries. In Turkey not even paintings or photographs have been permitted. Kemal's decision breaks with religion and ends a tradition...
...Intoxicants, games of chance and stones set up are the devil's work," says the Koran. But Kemal Pasha declares, "No nation can progress without art." And since the Koran was revealed to Mahomet, as Kemal explained in his announcement last week, at a time when the chief works of sculpture were idols, its prohibition of images need no longer apply...
...they go even further and demand that foreign nations give up the Capitulations. These are the courts run by the consulates for foreigners living in Turkey. The Turks want these done away with and foreigners tried wholly in Turkish courts and under Turkish law. The Koran is the sole Turkish law authority, and anything that is not accounted for in it is not a case for courts. A pistol murder, for example, cannot come up in court because Allah, when he dictated the Koran, forgot to speak of pistols. In addition, a Moslem can kill, assault, rob, and injure...