Re: [A-List] No Taksim May Day in Turkey: 500-900 Demonstrators Detained

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Sabri Oncu <sabri_oncu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You see Yoshie,
>
>  It is your moderate, democratic Islamists who did this: I think, from
>  now on, the only direction they will go is down!
>
>  Islam versus imperialism is not the dichotomy here: our islamists
>  are collaborators of the imperialist powers.

No, I have never put the matter so simplistically, like "Islam versus
imperialism."  Besides, the fact of Turkey being a collaborator of
imperialist powers long predates the rise of the AKP.   The country
joined NATO in 1952.
-- 
Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>