… or perhaps a young woman who thinks she can pass herself off as Ataturk is the one who "giddily pickets."
OK, OK; I’ll drop this now. As the killjoys will quickly remind me, there are much more important things to be going on about.
Such as — well, such as what this woman was actually protesting:
A Turkish woman, wearing a mask of modern Turkey’s founder Kemal Ataturk, marches with a national flag during a silent protest in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, June 23, 2007. Thousands of people marched in a silent demonstration to protest attacks by separatist Kurdish rebels in Turkey’s southeast. The rebels from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have escalated attacks recently on Turkish targets. The conflict with the PKK has killed tens of thousands of people since 1984, when the rebels first took up arms against the Turkish state. The United States and the European Union consider the PKK a terrorist organization. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)
This is one of the elements that argues against the Joe Biden plan for splitting up Iraq, as intriguing as it might be. As Tom Friedman reminds us this week (and which I can’t show you on account of the NYT being so stingy with online content), the Kurds come closest to having a workable state. And the Turks won’t tolerate the Kurds having such a state, because of their own Kurdish problems. And we can hardly say they’ve got nothing to worry about, when they are bedeviled by a group that we consider to be terrorist.
How’s that for a quick segue back to serious?
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