The Army and the Radical Left in Turkey

ISBN: 9781848854840 出版年：2010 页码：281 Ozgur Mutlu Ulus Bloomsbury Publishing

To a child even the most ordinary, sterile life can seem like always being tuned in to the Discovery Channel. When I was seven I made one of my most unpleasant discoveries – when smoke comes from chimneys on a hot sunny day it is not good news at all. I woke up on a typical hot late summer’s day, 12 September 1980 to be precise, and saw smoke coming from many houses in my home town of Bursa. I looked out of the window in wonder at the busy town of Bursa and saw nothing but military trucks driving around the town amid fumes all day long. I learned to my amazement that books were being burned, which these were and why they were being burned.