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Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | July 26, 1993 issue

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The article reports that, at the start of May 1993, one of Turkey's best-known intellectuals, Aziz Nesin, founded a left daily paper called "Aydinlik," which means "Illumination." "Aydinlik," set up with financial contributions from a number of Turkish leftists, takes broadly socialist positions, defends Kurdish rights, supports secular governmental traditions and is highly critical of Islamic fundamentalism. For one week in mid-May, Aydinlik, with a circulation of around 11,000, began to publish excerpts from novelist Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses." This jumped sales of the paper by 20,000. In the opinion of one Turkish political economist, Ahmet Tonak excerpting the book was a way to signal resentment of government censorship.

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NEWSPAPERS; NESIN, Aziz; ISLAMIC fundamentalism; RELIGIOUS fundamentalism; SATANIC Verses, The (Book); RUSHDIE, Salman
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