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The Grand Turk
Drone strikes, hunger strikes: Kurds in Turkey up the ante
2019-05-19
[Rudaw] Turks everywhere solemnly honor November 10, 1938 and its anniversaries as a day of mourning. That’s when the founder of their country‐Ataturk, the so-called father of the Turks‐died of liver failure due to alcoholism.

In The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
, Turks stop work to observe his passing. Kurds are also expected to take part in these involuntary rituals. Our children do since their teachers leave them with no choice but to mourn and praise the "deathless" Turk.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Day of mourning this day among the Greeks as well.
Posted by: Dale   2019-05-19 07:36  

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