On 5/9/07, Sabri Oncu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie:
> If secular parties make an unexpected comeback in the upcoming
> elections, I'll chalk it up to the raki and bikini votes. ;->
Geee Yoshie, you did not get the point! It is not about the raki and bikinis.
It is about the raki and topless females on the beaches.
By the way, let us see how well Louis did in his Turkish course. Louis, please
translate this into Turkish:
"We don't need no education,
We don't need no thought control."
If you don't think the above is related to my objection to both the AKP and
Military, then I have no choice but to conclude that I failed to communicate my
ideas to you.
It is possible that the Turks are finally getting political education
that is not thought control, in real life not in school, through the
current social conflicts. Leftists in Turkey, if they are able and
willing, can enter into them with a view to disentangling
modernization from Westernization, asking the Turks to think hard
about what kind of modernity they really want.
--
Yoshie
