You knocked it out of the park, baby
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Hurriyet Daily News
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Nisan 08, 2009 00:00
ISTANBUL - At the Daily News, we are not really fans of your American baseball. The fact Cuba loves its remains a mystery. We are, however Mr. President, familiar with the baseball-derived expression: "You knocked this one out of the park, baby."
You did.
Just a few hasty impressions from our newsroom in this still early stage of analysis:
Nice touch on Sultan Abdülmecid’s gift to the Washington Monument 150 years ago. We are re-running a report from our archives dated 2003 on the story behind the gift today.
At what is Turkey’s most culturally diverse newsroom - kilo for kilo the most diverse in the world - there were some white-knuckle moments as you slalomed around "the events of 1915." There were some audible groans at, "I have not changed my mind." Later, with parliamentary cameras panning many a stern face, you could have heard a pin drop in our newsroom at your line, "I know there are many strong feelings in this chamber." We have a tech-savvy staff and at that moment the freight of SMS messages and MSN Messenger communiques between our team and colleagues in Yerevan was probably tying up a satellite. The sentiment among our crowd of Turks and Armenians spread across a closed border was essentially, "please don’t blow it now, Mr. President."
You did not.
Yes, extremists on all sides of this issue will be bickering in coming days that they did not get 100 percent. We’re fine with the fact that years of tireless work between Turks and Armenians of goodwill were not wasted. We still have a dialogue around which to align; an awkward phrase on Monday and this might not be the case.
Thank you.
You should be aware that your inscription at Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of our country’s founder, Kemal Atatürk, provoked lingering debate in the newsroom: "As the 44th President of the United States of America, I look forward to strengthening relations between the U.S. and Turkey and supporting Atatürk’s vision of Turkey as a modern and prosperous democracy giving hope to its people and providing ’peace at home, peace in the world.’"
Our understanding of what Atatürk meant when he said "peace at home, peace in the world" did not include the activism implied in your word "providing." After the devastation of back-to-back wars, Atatürk’s point was that we wanted to stay out of other people’s business and keep them out of ours. So if this is a clever effort to leverage Atatürk’s legacy behind more troops in Afghanistan or something... Well, let’s have that discussion on its merits and leave Atatürk out of it.
We take to heart your advice that the future belongs to those who create, not to those who destroy. We will do our part. You do yours.
Just a few hasty impressions from our newsroom in this still early stage of analysis:
Nice touch on Sultan Abdülmecid’s gift to the Washington Monument 150 years ago. We are re-running a report from our archives dated 2003 on the story behind the gift today.
At what is Turkey’s most culturally diverse newsroom - kilo for kilo the most diverse in the world - there were some white-knuckle moments as you slalomed around "the events of 1915." There were some audible groans at, "I have not changed my mind." Later, with parliamentary cameras panning many a stern face, you could have heard a pin drop in our newsroom at your line, "I know there are many strong feelings in this chamber." We have a tech-savvy staff and at that moment the freight of SMS messages and MSN Messenger communiques between our team and colleagues in Yerevan was probably tying up a satellite. The sentiment among our crowd of Turks and Armenians spread across a closed border was essentially, "please don’t blow it now, Mr. President."
You did not.
Yes, extremists on all sides of this issue will be bickering in coming days that they did not get 100 percent. We’re fine with the fact that years of tireless work between Turks and Armenians of goodwill were not wasted. We still have a dialogue around which to align; an awkward phrase on Monday and this might not be the case.
Thank you.
You should be aware that your inscription at Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of our country’s founder, Kemal Atatürk, provoked lingering debate in the newsroom: "As the 44th President of the United States of America, I look forward to strengthening relations between the U.S. and Turkey and supporting Atatürk’s vision of Turkey as a modern and prosperous democracy giving hope to its people and providing ’peace at home, peace in the world.’"
Our understanding of what Atatürk meant when he said "peace at home, peace in the world" did not include the activism implied in your word "providing." After the devastation of back-to-back wars, Atatürk’s point was that we wanted to stay out of other people’s business and keep them out of ours. So if this is a clever effort to leverage Atatürk’s legacy behind more troops in Afghanistan or something... Well, let’s have that discussion on its merits and leave Atatürk out of it.
We take to heart your advice that the future belongs to those who create, not to those who destroy. We will do our part. You do yours.