HOW HAPPY FOR THOSE WHO FEEL THEY ARE TURKS
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Dec 24, 2008
Turkey
Prime Minister İnönu came to pay Ataturk a visit at around 18:00
in the Florya Kosk:
– Well, hello Ä°smet… You came without calling.
– Honorable Pasha, it is the minority issue. We are planning to bring
the issue up in the parliament. What do you think?
– Ä°smet, it’s too late today. Come by early tomorrow morning and
let’s discuss it.
When İnönu left, Ataturk called on all of his staff to gather
around: – Leave only the tulips… Pick out all of the other flowers
and throw them out, immediately.
Ä°smet Psa came again in the morning and saw the state the garden
was in and asked the staff:
– What happened here?
– It was the Honorable Pasha’s orders sir, so we pulled them out.
Prime Minister Ä°onu, went into President Ataturk’s chambers:
– Honorable Pasha, what is the situation with the garden?
– We pulled out all of the minorities and threw them away Ä°smet.
Ä°onu bowed his head down in a manner that stated "I get it."
Ataturk:
– Ä°smet, I didn’t say the words "How happy for those who feel they are
Turks" for nothing. Anyone who feels they are Turks is this nation’s
own children. I want it to be known this way for as long as I live. And
don’t dare take out a new law that deals only with minorities.
We were told this story by Ates_ Unal Erzen yesterday. He stated;
"I heard it from İnan Kırac". Municipal Mayor Erzen, during an
Armenian celebration named the "Affection Table" told this story. The
guests listening began to cry.
After Ates_ Unal Erzen left, we spoke with Ä°nan Kırac. "Yes, it’s
true, he said."
Ä°nan Kırac’s father Ali Numan Kırac "was sent to America
to study for six years by Ataturk, and he became Turkey’s first
ever agricultural engineer." Ataturk named him the director of the
"Ataturk Forest Farm." The story that was told turned out to be one
İnan Kırac had personally heard from his father.
How sad it is that there are still those that do not understand
Ataturk’s lesson.
Well, it was an occasion to honor and remember "Ataturk and Ä°nan
Kırac’s father Ali Numan Kırac."
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