Turkish Nationalism Quotes
Ataturk wrote this manual personally. Religious Turks took violent offense to Ataturk’s proclamation that Turks were great without Islam.
These infringements on Freedom of Speech and the Press were completely at odds with the principles of the other nations of the EEC and yet were included in the Turkish legal system in order to prevent radical Islamic fundamentalists from fomenting violence in the name of religion. To the fundamentalists, a democracy is against the will of Allah and there should be a Caliph who controls both religious and civil affairs for ALL Islamic countries thereby vitiating Turkish nationalism. The Turkish Constitution requires a secular state much like the United States but almost all fundamentalist mullahs are opposed to separation of church and state and would argue for a theocracy—an argument that has caused death and civil war throughout the Islamic World. At the same time as European Countries were pressuring Turkey to lighten up on these restrictions France, England and Other European Countries were strengthening their laws to control radical terrorist Islamic purveyors of hate and violence.
