Posted on 01/24/2008 8:00:30 PM PST by jdm
IZMIR, Turkey — When Atilla Yayla, a maverick political science professor, offered a mild criticism of Turkey’s first years as a country, his remarks unleashed a torrent of abuse.
Atilla Yayla, a Turkish professor, is living in self-imposed exile in England after causing an uproar with a speech in Turkey in 2006. He was charged with insulting the legacy of Ataturk, Turkey’s founder.
“Traitor!” a newspaper headline shouted. His college dismissed him. State prosecutors in this western city, where he spoke, opened a criminal case against him. His crime? Violating an obscure law against insulting the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey’s founder.
“I need thoughts to counter my ideas,” Mr. Yayla said. “Instead they attacked me.”
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What? From “gobble gobble” to “boggle boggle”?
Turkey, the Islamofascists.
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