Turkish university fires American teacher over caricature

[Vladimir]

A Turkish university sacked an English teaching instructor on accusation of denigrating Prophet Mohammed and praising Christianity.

Aksam daily reported on Sunday that Bogazici University administration fired American instructor Van Stone, who was serving at foreign languages school, on accusation of degrading Prophet Mohammed and hailing Christianity during carricature row.

Stone, who has been living in Turkey since 2001, was accused also by the students of insulting Mustafa Kemal, the founder of the modern Turkey and of labeling Turkey as "third world country."

Aksam daily reported that Stone had also threatened another instructor who began to work in place of his place.

Instructor Stone was also removed from the university accommodation.

Source: Cihan News

[tomjez]

LOL the guy went mad...Students in Boazici are usually really cool and not really islamist, so he must really have fucked up!

[dyaoko]

peopel of turkey are more islamist than many islamic countries like iran.

[Piling]

Because in Iran they have to live with islamists since 1980, they are sick of it !

[tomjez]

peopel of turkey are more islamist than many islamic countries like iran.

Not in Bogaziçi! Very modern americanized university...and girls are hot

[Piling]

and girls are hot Smile

Not contradictory with islamic countries. Some say even that islamic countries are populated by sexual obsessed people !

[dyaoko]

and girls are hot Smile

Not contradictory with islamic countries. Some say even that islamic countries are populated by sexual obsessed people !

thats right about iran.

[Piling]

it is human need, when you are in diet you become obsessed. If you have all you want freely you don't think of it all the time. For that reason ultra-religion regimes lead to increase pornography, drugs and alcohol !

[Rubar]

LOL the guy went mad...Students in Boazici are usually really cool and not really islamist, so he must really have fucked up!

They might not be Islamist but they are surely Turkish Nationalists which can suddenly transform into fascism at a moments notice. The same is true for METU (MIddle Eastern Technical University) it is renown for its left wing activism. However, with the rise of Kurdish liberation struggle, the left wing in Turkey have opted for more nationalistic anti-Kurdish line. This is evident in the "Turk SOLU' magazine that called for all Turks to not trade with Kurds and not marry kurds yada yada yada...

It is because when they advocate western values, they do not really internalize it and make it part of their very own identity, so fascism is always simmering beneath the surface.

[piskrt]

Turk Solu is a marginal magazine so it is not important what they say. Besides, Kurdish natioanlists piseed mainstream leftists su much that, now even the most liberal voices think twice before using kurd in a positive sense.

[Piling]

If he "slandered" Atatürk and said that Turkey is a Thirld-World country, he should have troubled Turkish students more than all things against Muhammad. Only Leftist Turks could accept so such things

[abdur]

This has not much to do with the topic, but in addition what Rubar said, i would like to add something:

There are some turkish fora in Holland where one of them is known as the least negative place concerning their view upon kurds. There is a topic right now called "which people do the turks hate most?"

Welke volk hebben de Turken het meeste Hekel aan?

Grieken 5% [ 4 ]

Armenen 21% [ 15 ]

Koerden 30% [ 21 ]

Arabiëren 17% [ 12 ]

Europeanen (alg) 4% [ 3 ]

andere, geen mening 20% [ 14 ]

Totaal aantal stemmen : 69

source: http://forum.turksnl.net/viewtopic.php?t=13115&

[tomjez]

69 answers. representative of 69 000 000 turks?

[islamic~pride]

69 answers. representative of 69 000 000 turks?

it certainly does say something though.

[tomjez]

Well no.