QUOTE(Somey @ Fri 2nd March 2012, 10:17am)
QUOTE(Wikifan @ Thu 1st March 2012, 5:59pm)
nah, just typical far-left reactionary noise. funny thing how something so wicked as racism becomes a partisan issue.
Gee, the way I read it, you were caught pulling statements about Noam Chomsky's treatment of Turkey
directly out of your ass. If that's "typical far-left reactionary noise," then let's have more of it! (IMG:
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not to derail the thread, but since you asked:
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Germany is one of the European countries which has had a “rightwing backlash against Muslim immigrants†and, “It is the background reason why Turkey is unlikely to be accepted into the EU, even if it meets all the human rights standards,†said Chomsky in Today's Zaman.
The newspaper reported that Turkey tried to join the EU in 2005, but the process has been slow amid arguments in Europe that Turkey cannot join the EU because of "cultural differences."
Chomsky added that there are worse human rights violators among European countries and pointed to Britain which participated in the war in Iraq.
"Has Turkey done anything like that? On the contrary, it refused to participate in the invasion. That’s a much higher level of observance of human rights and even international law...I always felt Europe was more racist,
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The MIT professor visited Ä°stanbul on Friday to participate in an international conference on the freedom of expression, and said he had seen great improvements in Turkey's approach to human rights, especially in its treatment toward the Kurds.
On Brazil and Turkey:
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very repressive society has its own barriers to freedom and justice. But what has been achieved in Brazil is impressive, just as the struggle for human and civil rights in Turkey is truly inspiring. In many respects I know of nothing like it elsewhere. Every place on earth can be truly exceptional in its own ways.
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