{"id":175,"date":"2007-04-29T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T18:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-04-29T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T18:03:51","slug":"turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to the EU, the Human Rights organizations and the State Department to support an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/europe\/04\/29\/turkey.election\/index.html\">Islamist<\/a> Turkey.  &#8216;Cuz it would be democratically-elected, dontchya know.  The Turks, better than say the Bush Administration, seem to understand that religion should be a personal thing, not a governing philosophy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mehmet Gunes, 39, whose wife was wearing an Islamic-style headscarf, said: &#8220;We support what the army said. It&#8217;s a warning. My wife wears a headscarf &#8212; we&#8217;re not against that. We came here to stand up for a secular, enlightened Turkey. Our children&#8217;s future is important.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Democracy is only one of the safeguards of freedom and not a particularly good one.  I hate to risk Godwin&#8217;s Law, but we&#8217;ve seen democracies elect some pretty awful people to high office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it to the EU, the Human Rights organizations and the State Department to support an Islamist Turkey. &#8216;Cuz it would be democratically-elected, dontchya know. The Turks, better than say the Bush Administration, seem to understand that religion should be a personal thing, not a governing philosophy: Mehmet Gunes, 39, whose wife was wearing an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=175\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turkey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2BzKF-turkey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}