Talk:Six Arrows

I removed this note from the bottom of the article:

"Note: (please do not change the content of the article, except necessary error corrections)"

Sorry, but even if everything you've written is true, no one owns an article and shouldn't request that no one change the content. That's the nature of Wikipedia. If this was an attempt to prevent vandalism, then it won't work, and any vandalism that occurs will be dealt with.

TaintedMustard 07:41, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wording

Was the wording regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, race, sect, sexual preference, philosophical idea or belief really used by Mustafa Kemal in ? It sounds as copied from modern US newspaper, not as text century old. Is this article valid at all?

REPLY FROM THE FIRST NARRATOR OF THE ARTICLE

In the last Turkish constitution adopted in 1982, discrimination based on gender, race, sect, ethnicity, philosophical idea or belief is forbidden. Mustafa Kemal's original belief was "Every person who feels him/herself as Turk is really Turk, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religious or philosophical sect or belief".

Since you do not have sufficient knowledge about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, I do not agree that you have the right to criticize the content of the article. If you want to change the grammar, of course I am not an "English language and literature scholar", and there can always be grammar or spelling mistakes.

However, for the content please do not create a discussion if you are not a scholar of the issue. I am a Turkish citizen, I am a member of CHP (the 82-year-old party established by Atatürk that carries the Six Arrows as its symbol and continues Atatürk tradition), and I have been taking courses of "History of the Turkish Republic" and "Principles of Atatürk" for 10 years. (In Turkey those courses are given in primary, secondary levels of education and also obligatorily in all universities of Turkey) Therefore I am not open to discussion with people who lack the knowledge about the meanings of those six principles.

PS - Have you ever read any US newspapers? I do not prefer, because I do not agree with the American way of egalitarianism since there are thousands of homeless and poor people in the US.