- Ali Bayramoğlu
Ali Bayramoğlu (b. 1956) is a Turkish writer and political commentator. He is a columnist in the Turkish daily newspaper
Yeni Safak , writing from a liberal pro-Islamic viewpoint.cite news |title=Kurdish broadcasts perturb press |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/world/europe/3786719.stm |work=BBC |date=2004-06-08 |accessdate=2008-02-14 ] He has campaign against ultra-nationalism , [cite news |title=Wanted: Backers of Ergenekon |url=http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=132601&bolum=101 |work=Today’s Zaman |date=2008-01-28 |accessdate=2008-02-14 ]militarism [cite news |title=Military manoeuvres |url=http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9304048 |work=The Economist |date=2007-06-07 |accessdate=2008-02-14 ] and restrictions on Islamicpolitical parties [cite news |first=Sahar Kassaimah |last=Kassaimah |title=Turkey's Wounded Democracy |url=http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1156077758010&pagename=Zone-English-Muslim_Affairs%2FMAELayout |work=Islam Online |date=2001-06-27 |accessdate=2008-02-14 ] in Turkey, and in favour of greater recognition of, and accommodation with, the Kurdish population of Turkey, [cite news |title=From the Columns |url=http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55456 |work=Turkish Daily News |date= 2006-09-30|accessdate=2008-02-14 ] and a break with what he sees asOttomanist tendencies which prevent Turkey from moving forward on issues such as theArmenian genocide . [cite news |first=Sabrina |last=Tavernise |coauthors=Arsu, Sebnem |title=Traumatic issues trouble Turkey's sense of its identity |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/12/europe/12genocide.php |work=International Herald Tribune |date=2007-10-11 |accessdate=2008-02-14 ] He has also warned against the possible rise ofleft-wing extremist political violence in Turkey. [cite news |first=Douglas |last=Frantz |title= Anxiety Is Rising in Turkey Over a Surge of Left-Wing Violence |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05EFDB123AF93AA35752C0A9679C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/K/Kurds |work=New York Times |date=2001-01-09 |accessdate=2008-02-14 ]References
External links
* [http://www.yenisafak.com.tr/yazarlar/?t=11.05.2007&y=AliBayramoglu Yeni Şafak newspaper]
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