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I hope you are wrong
Reader comment on item: Turkey's Last Free Election
Submitted by Manny Matamoros (United States), Jun 13, 2011 at 13:42
But only time will tell. Politics and world events are famously difficult to predict.
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| Islam is the religion of the Arabs only [74 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | edmond michaels | Dec 22, 2015 00:54 | 227212 | ||
| Kurdistan [72 words] | David W. Lincoln | May 25, 2015 20:35 | 223517 | ||
| 1 | Blame Bush [70 words] | Dave | Apr 24, 2014 16:03 | 214605 | |
| Turkey [192 words] | Katie | Jun 14, 2011 00:44 | 186303 | ||
 I hope you are wrong [14 words] | Manny Matamoros | Jun 13, 2011 13:42 | 186276 | ||
| 6 | Right to choose [41 words] | AbuSaad Khan | Jun 13, 2011 12:45 | 186274 | |
| 2 |  Regular elections? [80 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 18, 2011 11:50 | 186274 | |
| 2 | A democracy is a step in the right direction but not enough. [222 words] | Prashant | Jun 21, 2011 00:11 | 186274 | |
| 5 | ME expert... [74 words] | aozturk | Jun 13, 2011 10:04 | 186265 | |
| 6 | Also concerned [154 words] | Ann | Jun 13, 2011 08:59 | 186264 | |
| 9 | Welcome to Turkey ? [723 words] | Ianus | Jun 15, 2011 18:16 | 186264 | |
| 2 | Why not look at the mirror [51 words] | Bazoonah | Jun 16, 2011 13:54 | 186264 | |
| 4 | Not a little story at all ! [282 words] | Ianus | Jun 18, 2011 04:26 | 186264 | |
| 2 | Armenian genocide [35 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 18, 2011 11:59 | 186264 | |
| 1 | an Addon [181 words] | Bazoonah | Jun 20, 2011 04:17 | 186264 | |
| 8 | Ask Allah.He knows best why Israel is so successful and Moslems such a failure, doesn't he ? [238 words] | Ianus | Jun 29, 2011 13:15 | 186264 | |
| 4 | Ignorance and Greed - Turkey's two eternal allies in the West [537 words] | Ianus | Jun 29, 2011 14:21 | 186264 | |
| 8 | Alert for Turksih propagandists: Our dear Naushad is saying that there was really an Armenian Genocide! [138 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 30, 2011 05:55 | 186264 | |
| The coming Islamic empire. [102 words] | Naushad Omar | Jul 9, 2011 18:58 | 186264 | ||
| Arab Superiority? [105 words] | Naushad Omar | Jul 9, 2011 19:04 | 186264 | ||
| 3 | Dictatorship and Islamism go hand in hand [232 words] | Prashant | Jul 10, 2011 18:20 | 186264 | |
| 6 | Islam is the religion of the arabs only [291 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 12, 2011 07:39 | 186264 | |
| 2 | freedom was their right [28 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | Jul 21, 2011 14:28 | 186264 | |
| 4 | Turkey IS gone from the western orbit, if it has ever really been a part of it to begin with.... [114 words] | Adina Kutnicki, Israel | Jun 13, 2011 06:12 | 186262 | |
| 10 | some respect to our choice [100 words] | ahmet | Jun 14, 2011 02:28 | 186262 | |
| 1 | the freedom to leave islam [82 words] | Mike | Jun 15, 2011 04:09 | 186262 | |
| 5 | Imam Edrogan's party [194 words] | Ianus | Jun 15, 2011 18:45 | 186262 | |
| 7 | Turkey is a 99,8% Islamic monoculture.Let's face it at last ! [305 words] | Ianus | Jun 15, 2011 20:01 | 186262 | |
| 3 | Islamic tolerance and christian love. [82 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 18, 2011 12:12 | 186262 | |
| 6 | What is really a Genocide as per UN and the crimes of Turkey and its bloody past [170 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 18, 2011 16:38 | 186262 | |
| 5 | Do kafirs have a right to self-defence against Moslem aggression ? [552 words] | Ianus | Jun 19, 2011 18:51 | 186262 | |
| 3 | Another victim Arabian imperialism and of Islam [553 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 20, 2011 07:25 | 186262 | |
| 1 | 10% of the middle east is still Christian [126 words] | Prashant | Jun 20, 2011 23:53 | 186262 | |
| 1 | Christian conversion in midlle east was incremental and slow. [118 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 22, 2011 12:49 | 186262 | |
| 2 | al-wali wa al-mawali and what a disgrace [76 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 22, 2011 19:05 | 186262 | |
| No blame [56 words] | sephardi | Jun 24, 2011 19:19 | 186262 | ||
| 1 | Islam, the beautiful religion [135 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 25, 2011 14:38 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Muslims killed 90 M hindus? True or false. [682 words] | Naushad Omar | Jun 25, 2011 15:16 | 186262 | |
| 3 | Monotheism is a "much ado about nothing" [526 words] | Prashant | Jun 26, 2011 00:43 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Another Turkish propagandist [194 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 26, 2011 05:31 | 186262 | |
| 2 | el-komidyya el-islamiyya goes on and on [679 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 26, 2011 06:49 | 186262 | |
| 1 | el-komidyya el-islamiyya goes on and on revisited [226 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 26, 2011 08:17 | 186262 | |
| 19 | 90M Hindus were killed by muslims during jihad in India [1447 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 26, 2011 13:56 | 186262 | |
| 1 | Reponse to dhimmi no more [131 words] | sephardi | Jun 26, 2011 22:00 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Hatred and prejudice only lead to bitterness and blindness [389 words] | Mehmet | Jun 27, 2011 21:03 | 186262 | |
| 4 | The Turkish crimes against humanity [717 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 28, 2011 06:27 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Turkey and its crimes against humanity [634 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 28, 2011 07:22 | 186262 | |
| 2 | individualized middle classes replacing monolithic ethnic blocks [317 words] | Mehmet | Jun 29, 2011 02:33 | 186262 | |
| 4 | The ugliness of Islam [119 words] | Ianus | Jun 29, 2011 13:38 | 186262 | |
| You don't have any government documentation that proves Turks did genocide [217 words] | sephardi | Jun 29, 2011 14:01 | 186262 | ||
| 2 | we are all Armenians and get used to it [774 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 29, 2011 18:00 | 186262 | |
| 6 | we are all Armenians and get used to it and the Armenian Genoicde and those that deny it and shame on them [732 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 1, 2011 05:57 | 186262 | |
| You don't even know what makes something official for a government [168 words] | sephardi | Jul 1, 2011 18:45 | 186262 | ||
| 5 | Confession of the criminal is not needed to establish the authorship of a crime [1789 words] | Ianus | Jul 2, 2011 11:01 | 186262 | |
| 1 | Armenian Genocide does not exist [243 words] | sephardi | Jul 2, 2011 19:54 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Poor Turks! They are so allergic to the truth. [453 words] | Ianus | Jul 5, 2011 02:20 | 186262 | |
| 3 | Our dear Sephardi has nothing to say and shame on anyone who denies the Armenian Genocide [725 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 5, 2011 08:04 | 186262 | |
| 5 | Jalal ad-Din Rumi on Turks [1116 words] | Ianus | Jul 6, 2011 14:44 | 186262 | |
| Turks won't accept imaginary Armenian Genocide [139 words] | sephardi | Jul 6, 2011 22:22 | 186262 | ||
| 2 | Republic Of Turkey, MInistry Of Foreign Affairs: The Armenian Allegation Of Genocide The Issue And The Facts [3684 words] | sephardi | Jul 7, 2011 23:31 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Our dear Sephardi is unable to refute the legal case against Turkey in regard to the Armenian Genocide. Shame on Turkey [809 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 8, 2011 06:55 | 186262 | |
| 2 | Our dear Sephardi the Turkish Propagandist tells us that he has government documents! Where are they? Propaganda does not count [277 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 9, 2011 06:04 | 186262 | |
| Sephrdi - A Typical Genocide Denier [51 words] | Young MC | Jul 10, 2011 19:23 | 186262 | ||
| 1 | The Armenian Genocide and those that deny it! Shame on them! [694 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 20, 2011 07:16 | 186262 | |
| 5 | The barbarian and the civilized [188 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 20, 2011 13:43 | 186262 | |
| Turkey's Predicament - How to Have a Future in Spite of Its Past [384 words] | M. Tovey | Jul 29, 2011 18:19 | 186262 | ||
| Hijrath appeal will help to evacuate bad Muslims from India [387 words] | Islamic Ahimsa | Sep 11, 2011 00:45 | 186262 | ||
| Do you have any proof to support your claims? [26 words] | Adil | Oct 20, 2014 14:38 | 186262 | ||
| 4 | The Hindu Genocide revisited [514 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 22, 2014 17:14 | 186262 | |
| Real proof [55 words] | Adil | Oct 25, 2014 15:12 | 186262 | ||
| And what about the Christian Imperialism in India [99 words] | Adil | Oct 26, 2014 17:40 | 186262 | ||
| 1 | Our dear Adil admits that millions of Hindus were murdered by the Muslim invaders of India! [476 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 28, 2014 07:54 | 186262 | |
| 1 | Why do you live among kuffar our dear Adil and not in Saudi Arabia? Social benefits? No? [138 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 28, 2014 17:31 | 186262 | |
| 1 | It is a spectrum Adil [159 words] | Prashant | Oct 28, 2014 17:41 | 186262 | |
| 2 | My evidence that Islam is the religion of the Arabs only? For the nth time Q14:4 and 10:47 and 13:8 and 35:24 and 28:75 [482 words] | dhimmi no more | Oct 29, 2014 07:25 | 186262 | |
| Where does it say in any history textbooks that 90,000,000 Hindus died because of Islam? [16 words] | Adil | Oct 31, 2014 12:20 | 186262 | ||
| That is what I find bad.......... [28 words] | Adil | Oct 31, 2014 12:22 | 186262 | ||
| 2 | You still did not answer my question why do you live among Christian "imperialists"? [76 words] | dhimmi no more | Nov 2, 2014 08:31 | 186262 | |
| 3 | The Hindu Genocide revisited again [52 words] | dhimmi no more | Nov 2, 2014 08:35 | 186262 | |
| 1 | What of Turkey's Foreign Relations? [55 words] | Peter Herz | Jun 13, 2011 05:42 | 186261 | |
| 1 | Expert Accountability [150 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | kzndr | Jun 12, 2011 22:38 | 186257 | |
| Islamist Parties Abroad [109 words] | Sir Daniel M. J. Tobin | Jun 12, 2011 17:37 | 186247 | ||
| 5 | Election results did not meet PM Erdoğan's expectations [32 words] | soma | Jun 12, 2011 16:44 | 186242 | |
| This is a wrongheaded analysis [117 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Jeff H. | Jun 12, 2011 14:02 | 186235 | ||
| 11 | When was the first "fair and free election" in Turkey,I wonder ? [928 words] | Ianus | Jun 13, 2011 17:03 | 186235 | |
| 17 | Turkey the land of delusions [104 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 14, 2011 06:57 | 186235 | |
| 1 | You seem to know what you are talking about but you dont have a clue actually [418 words] | John | Jun 14, 2011 10:39 | 186235 | |
| 5 | Freedom of speech in Turkey would mean the end of Kemal's personality cult [1857 words] | Ianus | Jun 15, 2011 05:15 | 186235 | |
| 5 | "He insults Turkishness.Let's hire an underage murderer to kill him!" [537 words] | Ianus | Jun 16, 2011 17:00 | 186235 | |
| 11 | Turkey the land of delusions part deux [1059 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 17, 2011 07:21 | 186235 | |
| 5 | Turkey - the land of paranoia (Armenian separatism without Armenians and Jewish land grab in Turkey without Jews) [767 words] | Ianus | Jun 17, 2011 15:59 | 186235 | |
| 2 | What is true of Turkey is true to all Islamic countries and societies [276 words] | Prashant | Jun 17, 2011 18:04 | 186235 | |
| 3 | The wikileak and Turkey is indeed the land of delusions [62 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 19, 2011 18:21 | 186235 | |
| 1 | 99 new names for Islam [154 words] | Ianus | Jun 20, 2011 07:58 | 186235 |
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