Turkish enrichment of Western culture beats the drums again

Skybird · 01-24-13, 06:43 AM

Penguin,

the English edition of Hürryet, the biggest newspaper of Turkey, had a brief mentioning of it this morning (while the native Turkish edition has posted a whole series of articles about it in the past days which I just cannot understand, and thus I assume it is a very different kind of report: you do not make a series of articles about a no-news). While the article I refer to in the international edition, that is read internationally and not so much in Turkey, is relatively neutral and brief, interesting is a comment posted by one Turkish reader, who indicates that it is indeed silly - but who clearly does not make the Turks in Austria responsible for it, but says that it is funny that it is the Austrians again making a joke of themselves.

On the blasphemy laws and their abandoning, I of course agree. No special status for religions. - Hurryet on the other hand opened with a headline today: Isanoglu lambasting the West and Western policies to institutionalise "Islamophobia".

That is a nice illustration of how to turn things around by exactly 180°.

01-24-13, 06:43 AM	#7
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,569 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Penguin, the English edition of Hürryet, the biggest newspaper of Turkey, had a brief mentioning of it this morning (while the native Turkish edition has posted a whole series of articles about it in the past days which I just cannot understand, and thus I assume it is a very different kind of report: you do not make a series of articles about a no-news). While the article I refer to in the international edition, that is read internationally and not so much in Turkey, is relatively neutral and brief, interesting is a comment posted by one Turkish reader, who indicates that it is indeed silly - but who clearly does not make the Turks in Austria responsible for it, but says that it is funny that it is the Austrians again making a joke of themselves. On the blasphemy laws and their abandoning, I of course agree. No special status for religions. - Hurryet on the other hand opened with a headline today: Isanoglu lambasting the West and Western policies to institutionalise "Islamophobia". That is a nice illustration of how to turn things around by exactly 180°. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.