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Your opinion may be perfectly legitimate in itself; indeed, you may keep defending it forever and ever. However its “realization” is altogether a different move that transcends you. It requires a different ground for legitimation. This is because there are people and groups in society who do not share your stance but who you nevertheless have to live with, who in other words you have to persuade.

 Etyen Mahçupyan  Sustainable conflict relations have a simple rule. Since both parties do not take any offense at the conflict, the more advantaged side is...

“There can be no democracy without freedom of expression. It is the duty of the university and the academic to share whatever opinions s/he may have adopted through reason and conscience with the rest of his/her society. Criticizing any opinion is a democratic quality whereas penalizing whoever may have expressed it is an authoritarian quality. (…) The greatest harm to a country’s democracy is not to express opinions but to suppress them.”

The AKP is faced with a clear question: Why is a level of support level that could easily rise as high as 60 percent, currently limited to no more than 35 percent? There are two legs to the answer, for there are two different groups that the government has to contend with. There are those who support the AKP but are not saying yes to a presidential system, and what they are concerned with is the “quality” of the job; they need to be convinced that this transition is being handled properly.

Any great work of art or literature, regardless of its starting point, is able to attain greatness to the extent that it can capture a general moment of humanity. Kipling’s promise of becoming “a Man,” too, is not limited to Britain and imperialism, but extends to a wider universality, to an overall human potential. He puts before us, wherever he might be, a certain type of a humble, resilient, self-sufficient, non-ostentatious, in brief a solid and steady modern hero.