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Set Asides

I have seen a lot of dishonest cheerleading for Ankara, but this Houston Chronicle piece is right up there when it says: The country’s leaders have been single-minded in building a new national identity that sets religious and ethnic differences aside [bold mine-DL]. That’s absurd, as anyone with a scintilla of knowledge about Kemalist Turkey […]

I have seen a lot of dishonest cheerleading for Ankara, but this Houston Chronicle piece is right up there when it says:

The country’s leaders have been single-minded in building a new national identity that sets religious and ethnic differences aside [bold mine-DL].

That’s absurd, as anyone with a scintilla of knowledge about Kemalist Turkey knows.

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