Insulting Kemal Ata-Turk Ata-X Is The Biggest Unforgivable Crime in Turkey
Insulting the dead man Kemal Ata-Turk Ata-X is the biggest unforgivable crime in the extreme anti-religion country of Turkey. Insulting Ata-X Cosmos forbids is taken very serious in Turkey and can lead the perturbator with ten years of imprisonment. When the neighboring Greeks insulted Kemal Ata-Turk (KAT) accusing him of being homo-sexual in the YouTube the hard die Kemalists shut it down in Turkey.
Now when a book praising Islam and was distributed in some town mosques the secularist fanatics went to court to ban it and accusing the book of being un-respectful for the dead man CAT. Looks like insulting KAT will make his remain ashes in display at the mausoleum in Ankara to all of sudden will get mad like a twister inside his golden urn.
Ine should recognize that many of the opponents of the Turkish official ideology are, in fact, respected journalists, intellectuals and academicians, whom certain ultranationalist Kemalist groups frequently label as traitors. It is not uncommon for such intellectuals to also be subject to threats of violence, or to face charges and convictions. Very recently, Atilla Yayla, a political science professor at Gazi University at Ankara, and one of the most prominent proponents of freedom of thought and expression in Turkey, was temporarily dismissed from his academic post right after certain newspapers proclaimed him a traitor to the country on the grounds that he referred to Turkey's 'Great Leader Kemal Ataturk' as 'this man.' Acting upon the controversy, the Public Prosecutor pressed charges on Yayla, and he was eventually convicted for pointing out in his speech that the one-party era (1925-1945) of the Turkish Republic was less progressive than the period that followed. Yayla now teaches at a university in the United Kingdom - sharing a similar fate to that of the Nobel-laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk, who also opted for a self-imposed exile, and left Turkey to teach comparative literature at Columbia University.
Now when a book praising Islam and was distributed in some town mosques the secularist fanatics went to court to ban it and accusing the book of being un-respectful for the dead man CAT. Looks like insulting KAT will make his remain ashes in display at the mausoleum in Ankara to all of sudden will get mad like a twister inside his golden urn.
Ine should recognize that many of the opponents of the Turkish official ideology are, in fact, respected journalists, intellectuals and academicians, whom certain ultranationalist Kemalist groups frequently label as traitors. It is not uncommon for such intellectuals to also be subject to threats of violence, or to face charges and convictions. Very recently, Atilla Yayla, a political science professor at Gazi University at Ankara, and one of the most prominent proponents of freedom of thought and expression in Turkey, was temporarily dismissed from his academic post right after certain newspapers proclaimed him a traitor to the country on the grounds that he referred to Turkey's 'Great Leader Kemal Ataturk' as 'this man.' Acting upon the controversy, the Public Prosecutor pressed charges on Yayla, and he was eventually convicted for pointing out in his speech that the one-party era (1925-1945) of the Turkish Republic was less progressive than the period that followed. Yayla now teaches at a university in the United Kingdom - sharing a similar fate to that of the Nobel-laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk, who also opted for a self-imposed exile, and left Turkey to teach comparative literature at Columbia University.
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