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Turkey: See? You don’t need religion to be an insane tyrant!

…but it helps. The Economist. …It was Ataturk’s embrace of rigid secularism and Western reforms that underlay Turkey’s recovery. But at what cost? A personality cult that carpets the country with busts and portraits of the great man was nurtured … Continue reading

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Turkey: Religious marriages sanction child rape

Stonegate Institute At the beginning of the New Year, as reported in the daily newspaper Haber Türk (Turkish News) of January 6, 2012, E.D., a 25-year old man in the northwestern Turkish city of Bolu, took his 11-year old “wife,” … Continue reading

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Israel: 19 killed in Commando attack on Gaza relief fleet

SMH. Update via TV: The death toll now stands at 19.

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Turkey: Teenage girl buried alive for ‘talking to boys’

Telegraph. Official figures have indicated that more than 200 such killings take place each year, accounting for around half of all murders in Turkey. Although honour killings are not infrequent in Turkey, the especially gruesome manner of Medine’s death has … Continue reading

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