European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Military Honor Guan marching before the Tomb of the rave Ned founder of Modem Turkey Kernel Ataturk in Ankara. Sis photo by l Emmett Lewis or. Turkey fulfilling Ataturk s dream by Alan Cowell new York times in an Ankara Salon usually reserved Lor Arlisi Cudeba be. A group of 200 people gathered recen Lylo discuss a question 1hat reflects a National Enigma Are turks europeans it is a Lopic thai touches Many nerves and raises Olney questions Lor instance How ready to Turkey bridging Europe and Asia to pursue ils recent apply Calico of loin the european Community from another wider perspective. The lad Hal the debate took place seems to show a kind of uncertainty in the nation s self definition. And Hal. In k in. Prompts some Oul siders to wonder How far Turkey has come since Kemal Ataturk who founded the modern Republic in 1923. Shoved the country onto a Westward course. Some turks say Iho navigation is icky conf Onang treacherous channels through reels of geography ideology religion and culture to the South and cast. Turkey is ringed by arabs and iranians and soviet georgians and armenians to the West m is contained by Borders with Greece and Bulgaria at Tuik my Isle Dho land he defined should direct us Visen firmly toward the West but ils local on among of Junr to Al Neiry Bors teem on to rolled and intensity in j Pri Fri Canent Borden Nuj the . L Union it is a Jato an Art Home. B,1 Long iraqi Ion. To communism in Vij has a i Crri person and but Ai from Bori and los no common roots it of the Tui Sti Sta Al a much of i. , in bul in a juju like Osl of tacit m kit to in e r.i-,1 and Soult Acyl in a a. Is a l Bui tc.11, of it in in Many ways pm present in Turkey a country bridging East and will such at in the tight Oft ton a cart moving a to attic Circle in Konya. In the self perception of an increasingly self confident and sophisticated intellectual Etile pursuing a return to Lull democracy it is of the West but its Economy is still labelled by Western diplomats As developing and thus nol of the West. In the debate at the artists Salon a participant said the nation s contradict on came to Light in ways that seemed to suggest thai Al Lurk s dream Wasyel lobe fulfilled. A former Cabinet minister Ihsan Sabri Ca Langil. Reportedly vouchsafed that Turkey s ottoman roots set it Asido from Western Europe. A prominent journalist was said to Nave suggested thai democratic notions such As tolerance of minorities by Tho majority had nol taken Root indeed that tolerance did nol exist Al All in the turmoil and blood letting that preceded the nation s last spell of military Rule from i960101383. Page 16 the stars and stripes sunday july 12, 1987 is
