Tuesday 21 October 2008

Turkey: What A Choice

Punctuation to the title of this post will be supplied on request.

Other than violent, largely Marxist, Kurdish separatism, the only viable political choices in this member-state of NATO, and putatively also of the EU, are the Islamists of the ruling AKP (the Turkish Tories, being affiliated to the European People's Party) and militantly secular "ultra-nationalists" who want to foment chaos in order to force a military coup.

Aren't you glad that we are all on the same side?

3 comments:

  1. What says the Ottoman Oligarch who is Mayor of London?

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  2. I assume that that is a rhetorical question.

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  3. On his blog:

    "In an interview with the Muslim News, Mr Johnson disowns the Islamo-sceptic views of his own senior aide, Anthony Browne. Mr Johnson reveals that he is learning Arabic, and to prove it recites the Muslim declaration of faith to his Muslim interviewer, in Arabic. ‘There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is his messenger.’ Does this mean he’s now a Muslim? I’m not sure. He should check – because once in, you can’t leave."

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