The Enemies Within: Not all Turks want to join the European Union

摘要

IT LOOKED LIKE THE BAD OLD DAYS when Turkey's universities were hotbeds of political strife. On one side of the police barriers were dozens of young students, many with their mouths taped shut to symbolize their support for free speech. On the other was an older crowd of about 200 ulkucu—mostly mustached ultranationalists waving Turk-ish flags and banners. Slogans were chanted, then abuse; a few missiles sailed through the air. In between, some rather bewildered international historians scuttled into a conference hall amid shouts of "Traitors!" Their subject? The fate of the Ottoman Empire's Armenians during World War I.