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cascadiance

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11. Snapping Turtle Turks wouldn't have fit in Turkey since Ataturk's time...

Reply to Dragonfli (Reply #9)

Sat Jul 27, 2013, 08:59 PM

Jul 2013

He banned the fez that these characters wear in this movie back when he modernized Turkey after WW I.

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/kemalism-is-dead-but-not-ataturk

Maybe these characters would fit now more in the increasing Islamic influence of Erdogan's current administration that also is looking to legalize head scarves, etc. too.

The glove likes leading the party of NO though...

along with the blue dogs too...

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!!!!! MiddleFingerMom Jul 2013 #15

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