Turkey's islamist PM Erdogan: "We Got The Immorality From The West" :
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=Announcement6408
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PM Erdogan: "We Got The Immorality From The West"
In his speech to Turkish graduate students going to study
abroad, Erdogan made some controversial remarks that
met with strong reactions in Turkey's mainstream media.
Erdogan said, "The poet who penned Turkish national anthem
[the Islamist Mehmet Akif Ersoy] said that we should compete
with art and science of the West; but unfortunatelywe adopted
the West's immoralities that are contrary to our values".
He added that Turkey would continue sending students abroad
for graduate studies for them to [learn and] compete in order to
reach beyond the art and science of the West and asked the
students to come back after their studies and work in Turkey.
The PM's remarks were questioned by the media that asked
what he meant by "the West's immoralities", whether or not he
was talking about Western women not being covered, and
how Turkey could become a EU member when the PM thought
the West was "immoral".
Source: Sabah, Cumhuriyet, Türkiye; January 25, 2008
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