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

Just like the examples from other countries, these people denigrate Turkey
at great length, make comments contemptuous of the Turkish 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 portray the PKK as a group of freedom
fighters, that try to bring Turkey to heel using the threat of the PKK, that threat-
en Turkey along the lines of "Either you support the PKK or else you must suf-
fer the consequences," and that prepare the way for the breaking up of the
country is one indication of this. These people, who espouse the ideas served
up to them by various think tanks in the West on almost a word-for-word
basis, never stop to think where the line they espouse may lead. They
espouse whatever they are indoctrinated with for the sake of approval, a
desire for fame or even something as simple as just seeing their name under
a column in a foreign newspaper. When they promote these ideas they
imagine that they will be perceived of 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 pseudointellectually syco-
phantic. In order to win that contest, they entirely abandon the interests of
their own country and merely wonder how to make themselves even more
popular. It is this competition over pseudointellectual sycophancy that lies
behind the way they shower praise upon the PKK, even though they know full
well that it is a traitorous terror organization that still continues to martyr our
troops and police; they routinely raise the subject of an amnesty for terrorists
and even shamelessly advocate the idea of Turkey providing the terrorists
with weaponry. The anti-Turkish writings, or comments within those writings,

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