To Be A Traitor..Turkish Standards!!

According to Istanbul-based “Marmara” online newspaper, the Turkish “Milliyet” newspaper published on Sept. 28, 2005, the article authored by Hasan Jemal. The following is my translation of the article from Armenian:
“If you don’t think like the state in Cyprus issue, you’ll be a traitor. In Kurdish issue, if you don’t think like the state, you’ll be a traitor… It is not easy to find any other country where, like in Turkey, it is easy enough to produce traitors.
In short, you are obliged to think like the state in the nation’s basic issues, because contrary to that the seal is ready; traitor.
To think in an opposite way and to have a dissenting opinion is forbidden. You should have one way of thinking to get rid of the offence of being a traitor.
Protesting against the Armenian conference, the protestors in front of the Bilgi University were shouting out: “We do not want traitors in universities”. What does it mean to be a traitor in the university and how?!
If you are for Annan’s (UN Secretary General) plan in Cyprus, if you a little bit tackle the Kurdish and identity issues and if you are for the freedom of speech on whether the Armenian genocide took place or not, then the seal is ready; traitor.
Let’s think about the university. A university is founded for science; to produce science and knowledge freely. But the people were shouting out: “We don’t want traitors in the university”. If you do not think like the state, you’ll be a traitor. Is it acceptable to have uniform thinking in all universities?
But in Turkey this is possible. During the rule of 12th September’s military regime the Turkish Council of the Higher Education (YOK) was founded to save the universities from the traitors. Since then, a lot of things have changed and even (YOK) has changed.
If one day the instructions sent by (YOK) to universities at that time are recalled, nobody knows how much we’ll get a laugh.
From this point of view, the Armenian conference was a chance to express academic freedom and explain what the university is existed for...
Instead of attacking each other and accusing the people of being traitors, we should learn to talk to each other in civilized manners.
We should also learn to put ourselves in the place of others and should be able to see their feelings and thoughts...