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    TURKS THREATEN TARAF DAILY COLUMNIST FOR HUMANISTIC ADAPTATION OF ATATURK'S "ADDRESS TO TURKISH YOUTH"

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    13.11.2009 17:49 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Turkish Taraf Daily's columnist, Sevan Nishanyan,
    who wrote a humanistic adaptation of Ataturk's "Address to Turkish
    Youth," a patriotic speech calling on young people to protect
    their country at all costs, published e-mails received from irate
    nationalists and filled with threats and vulgar language in his column.

    In his adaptation, Nishanyan replaced the first sentence of the
    address, "Your first duty is to preserve and to defend Turkish
    Independence and the Turkish Republic forever," with "Your first duty
    is to be a human being." The sentences: "This is the very foundation
    of your existence and your future. This foundation is your most
    precious treasure. In the future, too, there may be malevolent people
    at home and abroad, who will wish to deprive you of this treasure"
    in the original were changed to: "The very foundation of being human
    is love toward other human beings. All through your life, you shall
    consider it a duty for yourself to teach beauty, reason and justice
    to people. If you have knowledge, you will share it without expecting
    anything in return." The rest of Nishanyan's adaptation was a treatise
    on the equality of all human beings.

    However, the backlash from some among the Turkish youth was
    spine-chilling. "We will make you write the correct version of the
    'Address to Youth' with your own blood. ... I'll kill you like that
    Hrant Dink dog," said one of the messages, most of whose text was
    not suitable for replication, Asbarez.com reported.
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