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The can of worms
Reader comment on item: "A Corrective to the Pipes Worldview"?
Submitted by DRB (Turkey), Mar 7, 2009 at 17:56
Dear Mr. Pipes,
"Turk" despite attempts by the Republic has not shaken off the ethnic meaning. Anyhow - would it not be better to call Said Nursi a Muslim - or an Ottoman.
Regards
DB
P.S Norman always sings your praise
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Daniel Pipes replies:
Turk has two distinct meanings, a citizen of the Turkish Republic or an ethnic Turk. I used the term here in the first sense.
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