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Those who think of Turks as chatty, emotional and loud, oh how wrong you have been.
As the events of the week show, we are indeed very discreet people, with a discreet government and a policy of discretion.
Take, for instance, the way we have appointed, discreetly at midnight, a new chief negotiator for the European Union.
After several years of speculations on whether Foreign Minister Ali Babacan was just too busy for the hefty EU file; after endless suggestions by the EU partners that may be, just may be, this was the case; after months of speculations on whether the new negotiator would be Mr Egemen Bagis, or one of the favourite foreign ministers of the past or one of the dashing young dynamos of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), yes, the decision is taken Ğ it is Mr Bagis. But would we be so blunt to shout it from the rooftops of the EUSG?
No, of course not.
In the manner of a country which has ever so discreetly approved the new NAAP, or the National Programme for Alignment with the Acquis, during the New Year holidays, our ever-so-discreet PM made the mini cabinet shift and our even-more-discreet President approved it.
It seems that we observed the same discretion when it came to returning the Turkish nationality of one of Turkey’s greatest actors and directors. Yilmaz Guney, whose film Yol has been the first Turkish film seen by many foreigners, were deprived of Turkish nationality in 1982. He was, however, returned his Turkish nationality in 1993 - nine years after his death of cancer in 1984. His wife, Fatos, announced this week that she did not know this was the case. Neither did we, those of us who argued fervently that important Turkish figures who had been estranged by the Turkish regime of their time, should be returned their Turkish nationality.
According to Hurriyet, Turkey’s flag carrier is looking for foreign pilots Ğ ever so discreetly in the internet. This is largely due to the fact that many of the THY pilots have left for private companies and it wants to cover the shortage by employing good foreign pilots. But one could hardly expect the THY to go around with the tactics of a soccer club looking for star coaches or players. The vacancy is discreetly announced on its website. What can one say, except to hope that enough people sees it.
Aysun Kayaci, Turkey’s most gaff-prone beauty who crept to the front pages by saying that it was unfair that she should have the same right of vote as a shepherd, is also learning to be discreet. In the talk show that she shares with three other women (a journalist, a writer and a politically-engaged actress) she was warned not-too-subtly against discussing the Ergenekon case.
Mum is the word nowadays...
Take, for instance, the way we have appointed, discreetly at midnight, a new chief negotiator for the European Union.
After several years of speculations on whether Foreign Minister Ali Babacan was just too busy for the hefty EU file; after endless suggestions by the EU partners that may be, just may be, this was the case; after months of speculations on whether the new negotiator would be Mr Egemen Bagis, or one of the favourite foreign ministers of the past or one of the dashing young dynamos of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), yes, the decision is taken Ğ it is Mr Bagis. But would we be so blunt to shout it from the rooftops of the EUSG?
No, of course not.
In the manner of a country which has ever so discreetly approved the new NAAP, or the National Programme for Alignment with the Acquis, during the New Year holidays, our ever-so-discreet PM made the mini cabinet shift and our even-more-discreet President approved it.
It seems that we observed the same discretion when it came to returning the Turkish nationality of one of Turkey’s greatest actors and directors. Yilmaz Guney, whose film Yol has been the first Turkish film seen by many foreigners, were deprived of Turkish nationality in 1982. He was, however, returned his Turkish nationality in 1993 - nine years after his death of cancer in 1984. His wife, Fatos, announced this week that she did not know this was the case. Neither did we, those of us who argued fervently that important Turkish figures who had been estranged by the Turkish regime of their time, should be returned their Turkish nationality.
According to Hurriyet, Turkey’s flag carrier is looking for foreign pilots Ğ ever so discreetly in the internet. This is largely due to the fact that many of the THY pilots have left for private companies and it wants to cover the shortage by employing good foreign pilots. But one could hardly expect the THY to go around with the tactics of a soccer club looking for star coaches or players. The vacancy is discreetly announced on its website. What can one say, except to hope that enough people sees it.
Aysun Kayaci, Turkey’s most gaff-prone beauty who crept to the front pages by saying that it was unfair that she should have the same right of vote as a shepherd, is also learning to be discreet. In the talk show that she shares with three other women (a journalist, a writer and a politically-engaged actress) she was warned not-too-subtly against discussing the Ergenekon case.
Mum is the word nowadays...
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