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Thursday, 31 January 2013

Who wants to be Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu?

It all began when Birgül Ayman Güler, an two-year Izmir MP for the Republican People’s Party (CHP), lost her temper during a parliamentary debate last Wednesday.

In an extraordinarily angry rant, Ms Güler attacked the governing AK Party and the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) for she called a racial discrimination against Turks as a race.

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I lived in Turkey for fifteen years and have written about it for nearly half that time. This is an important country with plenty going on: football diplomacy, headscarves, restless minorities, anger at Israel and restrictions on speech freedoms - even for former dictators.

This is where I write about these and other things. I now live away from Turkey, but still work for it - for its national broadcaster, to be exact - and visit rather often, so it should be with some degree of credibility.

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