RE: Re: RE: Re: Iraqi political economy

2003-03-10 Thread Hakki Alacakaptan
About the Turkishhistory curriculum: I think it goes way beyond comic. Turkish national education has beenhighly politicized for as long as I can remember. Most current ministry of education staff, including schoolteachers,got their jobs throughthe fascist Nationalist Movement Party and

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Iraqi political economy

2003-03-10 Thread Louis Proyect
Hakki Alacakaptan wrote: As for Ocalan, who started his career murdering marxists and other Kurdish secessionists as an agent of Turkish intelligence, the less said the better. Can you document this? -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

RE: Re: Iraqi political economy

2003-03-09 Thread Hakki Alacakaptan
|| -Original Message- || [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of soula avramidis || Presumably most of the published literature is biased against || the regime. || Imagine you standing up and writing in favour of the regime, it || must have had some good and bad points, dialectics, as you ||

Re: RE: Re: Iraqi political economy

2003-03-09 Thread soula avramidis
"But today Iraq is seen as abusiness client and a more reasonable, less arrogant one than Saudi Arabia." I think I was not clear enough because there is so much to say, but I agree that it is not so much hate and or second hand emotions, I simply meant that there is so much misreading of history a