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Identify this Famous Turk... To Jim and Peri's Commercial-free CD for Turkish Learning -- now with triple ebook bonus! Also available in Downloadable Broadband Edition Essential Suffixes Printed Book

Freedom of Speech gets a fiendish French Twist What are you building Obelix? It's a Capital 'A' monument... to the Arrogance of the French Parliament. Thanks to Hinkelstein via Janek Jonas Where are Asterix and Obelix when we really need them? The French Parliament voted yesterday to make it a crime [punishable by one year in prison and a fine of up to 45,000 euros (57,000 dollars] to deny the so-called Armenian genocide, in speech or print. So... before the language-gendarmes start capping free speech and burning books in your locale, you may want to obtain copies of any or all of the following: 1) Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922 by Justin McCarthy Amazon.com (North America) Waterstones (UK) 2) History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (Volume II -- 1808 and 1975) by Stanford J. Shaw Amazon.com (North America) Amazon.com (UK) 3) A Myth of Terror -- Armenian Extremism by Erich Feigl Amazon.com (North America) AbeBooks (UK) And don't be surprised or intimidated by the strident brickbats that some critics have hurled at these earnest, rational historians. Just consider the source. Related: The Turkish National Election Results of 2007 -- and what they may foretell... The God-Awful State of Turkish-American Relations 1/4 TIME Magazine caves to 'True Believers' 1/3 TIME Magazine caves to 'True Believers' 2/3 TIME Magazine caves to 'True Believers' 3/3 International Study with an Outhouse Smell Turkish Religious Attitudes Survey Post your comment...»

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