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Suzan Frazer

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  • Questioning Ataturk lands liberal academic in trouble

    8 January 2007

    Source : AP, 4-01-2007
    When Atilla Yayla, a professor of political science, questioned the legacy of the revered founder of modern Turkey, nationalists called him a traitor and his university suspended him. He could not eat or sleep for days.
    “There was a lynching campaign against me,” he recalled recently in his office surrounded by books on liberal thought.
    Yayla said he was punished for shattering a taboo: daring to criticize Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a leader so loved and idolized (...)

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