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Turkish school mottos

Turkish journalist Burak Bakdil has said he heard the following mottoes incessantly when he was going to school:

“A Turk is worth the world.”
“Turks have had to fight the seven biggest world powers.”
“Turk’s only friend is another Turk.”
“…we lost WWI because we allied with the Germans, who were defeated (not us) but one day we will make the entire planet Turkish.”

By Jirair Tutunjian, Toronto keghart.org

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