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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blog.newsweek.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>The crime of not dying for your country</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/ov/archive/2007/11/13/the-crime-of-not-dying-for-your-country.aspx</link><description>In most countries, soldiers returning from being held hostage in enemy territory would probably be treated as national heroes. Not so in Turkey. Last Monday, eight Turkish soldiers kidnapped in an Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ambush on Oct 21st were</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 2.18)</generator><item><title>re: The crime of not dying for your country</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/ov/archive/2007/11/13/the-crime-of-not-dying-for-your-country.aspx#70704</link><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:48:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:70704</guid><dc:creator>eTRak_67</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Can you enlight my darken thoughts about your hypocrisy policy ?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How would you behave towards to disloyalty?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Have you watched their declaration on youtube?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;ahhh &amp;nbsp;so &amp;nbsp;you are &amp;nbsp;always right because you are europen &lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: Why It Matters</category></item><item><title>re: The crime of not dying for your country</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/ov/archive/2007/11/13/the-crime-of-not-dying-for-your-country.aspx#71623</link><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:38:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:71623</guid><dc:creator>Neruda</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Turks have had a militaristic culture for thousands of years. In what way is this aspect of our national culture undemocratic? Would you call the Japanese undemocratic? What's the connection to the military coup that turned power to a civilian administration 25 years ago?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It's amazing to me that Newsweek reporters absolutely have NO idea why the Russians were sent to the Gulag camps!? How can you even compare a communist dictator's deportation of it's own people to death camps in fear of political instability with a national disappointment felt individually by most Turks who for centuries are raised with the conviction their army is their pride.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Have the US media as well as Hollywood not handled military issues in Iraq or the 9/11 with a special behavioural code? Was this understanding not something that the US administration had asked for through telephone chats? If so, would this action it make the US administration undemocratic?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Obviously the authors are so disappointed that this aspect of Turkish culture is different from their own culture that they've lost their understanding of democracy, culture, politics and history.&lt;/p&gt;
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