Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RWISTA STAMPA-DENTRO<br />
DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi<br />
Turkisb Daily News lHURSDAY,JUNB 1,1995<br />
.-<br />
British commentator says 'it's time to l<strong>et</strong><br />
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk rest in his tomb'<br />
Turkish Daily News<br />
WASHINGTON- In an essay critical of the secular<br />
Kemalists' fear of the rise of political Islam in Turkey,<br />
NoelMalcolm, a British historian and commentator, recommen<strong>de</strong>d<br />
that "perhaps il is lime for the sake of mo<strong>de</strong>rnity<br />
and for the ordinary Muslim citizens of Turkey (most of<br />
whom want mo<strong>de</strong>rnity as well), to l<strong>et</strong> Atatürk rest in his<br />
tomb,"<br />
In his essay published in the June 12 issue of the National<br />
Review, America's foremost conservative biweekly,<br />
Malcolm summarized Atatürk' s reforms as well as the<br />
unexpected rise of the Welfare party.<br />
He said that the traditional Kemalist insistence on a<br />
homogeneous "Turkish Anatolian nationalism" - that<br />
Atatürk "invented by substituting' the compact geographical<br />
i<strong>de</strong>ntity of mo<strong>de</strong>m Turkey for the diffuse cultural-imperial<br />
thing that Ottoman civilization had heen" - is not tenable<br />
anymore.<br />
Kurdish insistence on cultural rights, thus, could not be<br />
stalled forever <strong>de</strong>spite the fact that the government had<br />
every ricl1t to fight the terrorism of the Kurdistan Workers'<br />
Party (pl
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