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of these people, who live far removed from the spiritual values of their
own country – or who, to be more accurate, imitate foreign culture –
who are ignorant of Turkey’s shared values, who seek to give the
impression of being unaware of popular values and beliefs, who des-
pise ordinary people and regard themselves as terribly important and
who analyze events from a remarkably narrow perspective is that they
care absolutely nothing for Turkey’s interests.

Just like the examples from other countries, these people denigra-
te Turkey at great length, make comments contemptuous of the Tur-
kish people and, even more painfully, passionately espouse ideas that

may damage the country in the long term, all for the sake of a “Well
done!” The recent increase in writings and statements that seek to port-
ray the PKK as a group of freedom fighters, that try to bring Turkey to
heel using the threat of the PKK, that threaten Turkey along the lines
of “Either you support the PKK or else you must suffer the consequences,”
and that prepare the way for the breaking up of the country is one indi-
cation of this. These people, who espouse the ideas served up to them

by various think tanks in the West on a word-for-word basis, never
stop to think where the line they espouse may lead. They espouse wha-
tever they are indoctrinated with for the sake of approval, fame or even
just seeing their name under a column in a foreign newspaper. When
they promote these ideas they imagine that they will be perceived as
ultra-modern, capable of seeing what ordinary people cannot and
making the most accurate analyses. The fact is, however, that they are
people, who merely recite what is told to them, have lost all character
and self-esteem and are regarded with pity by the majority of people.

Pseudointellectual sycophants also compete with one another in
terms of pseudointellectual sycophancy. The competition involves

seeing who can secure most “well dones” and who can be most pseu-
dointellectually sycophantic. In order to win that contest, they entirely

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