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Messages From Students
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Ebru Buluş BF-II: We have a long way to go. We could have come this far in twenty years , yet I am still happy.
Zehra Sözer TRIN-II: I do not think we have come a long way in seventy-five years. Still I am happy to be celebrating the 75th anniversary. I hope to celebrate many more anniversaries.
Başak Yamak BF-IV: We have a rooted and promising Republic. We are envied (by some countries) for that. No matter what, we will be a secular and democratic country. Turkey should be proud of her Republic.
Pınar Durukan ACC-IV: Turkey has been a democracy and a secular country for seventy-five years and she will live on like that.
Zeynep Göle BF-IV: Turkish people, who have been progressing on the way to the modernization, should be determined to stay on that track on the seventy-fifth anniversary.
Sinan Haliç BF-II: I do not think we are in pretty good shape. We are a developing country but we are losing some of our values in the meantime.
Tolga Yılmaz POLS-IV: Bilkent should be actively involved in the celebrations.
Bülent Uçar POLS-IV: We should be celebrating more vigorously. It is kind of superficially celebrated at Bilkent.
Emre Yılmaztürk IR-I: I want to see Turkey developing steadily; figures do not mean much.
Yalçın Pembecioğlu ECON-II: I want everybody to feel the joy.
Barış Emiroğlu MAN-III: We are still a young Republic. We have developed considerably but we are not yet a developed country.
Sezin Ersoy ECON-III: The seventy-fifth anniversary is just a title; I don't think it is anything beyond that.
Eray Kılınç POLS-III: I'd like to see many more seventy-fifths.
Çağın Eren IR-III: The early years of the Republic are said to be better than what we have right now. Both the society and the Republic started deteriorating later on.
Süreyya Erkan MAN-IV: Our Republic was better in the foundation years; I think it is not getting any better these days.
Fatma Cabbar ELIT-I: We are better off than seventy-five years ago, but we still have deficiencies.
Zeynep Alişan IE-III: It is very important to have unity, solidarity, democracy, and women's rights.
Sebil Kenir IE-IV: We have to proceed on the way to becoming a better nation.
Sera Öner TRIN-II: It makes me proud to live in a modern country with a Republican regime as we approach the year 2000. This is an important factor for me to feel confident.
Arzu Başkonuş TRIN-II: We have to carry our modern Turkey through many more seventy-five years.
Halkan Serçe IE-III: We have political instability and economic problems.
Cenkler Yakın IE-III: (Seventy-fifth anniversary celebrations) are thought to keep people away from daily difficulties.
Deniz Arslan ECON-II: There shouldn't be an extravaganza.
Erdem Kurul CS-III: Seventy-five or seventy-six, it doesn't make much of a difference.
Deniz Ersöz CS-II: (The seventy-fifth anniversary) doesn't mean much.
Gülistan Açılımş RESIM HAZ: The first decade following the foundation of the Republic is full of reforms and that shows the progress and the rest is kind of dark. We're almost at the beginning of the path Atatürk targeted for the seventy-fifth.
Özlem Boztaş AMER-III: I owe my freedom and welfare to the Republic. Turkish youth should protect Republic. Turkish women gained a lot of rights with the Republic. It is our duty to make social progress with an opportunity granted to us seventy-five years ago.
Cenk Yener ECON-III: In the seventh-fifth anniversary, I find it sad to see some people dragging behind as others are progressing. I'd like to see those laggards wake up and modernize.
Özlem Arpalı AMER-IV: As a young Turk, I am proud to be celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary.
Emine Yeşil AMER-IV: It is the time to display unity and solidarity. Let's show to the world what the Republic means to us by joyous celebrations.
Fatma Arslantürk AMER-IV: I'd like to see people be more conscientious about the Republic in the seventy-fifth anniversary.
Özkan Boztaş PREP: We should celebrate it with more enthusiasm.
Göktürk Şimşekol MAN-IV: Finally, they are trying to teach the significance of the Republic. We are beginning to appreciate it.
Didem Zeynep Havlıoğlu ELIT-III: As Turkish women, the Republic is our only chance.
Nil Giritli ELIT-III: It needs to be celebrated with enthusiasm. People are trying to dramatize it, and I don't like it.
Nurcihan Katan ELIT-III: We have come a long way. We still have shortcomings. We will overcome those in no time. I'm sure that Turkish youth will contribute to the Republic considerably.
Ayşen Ağbaş ELIT-III: A lot has changed in seventy-five years and it will keep changing. Let us join the progress.
Bülent Özsoy EF-II: To many more seventy-five years.
Erdem Karadağ ELIT-IV: We are not as modern and progressive-minded as we were in the Atatürk era.
Serhan Berker ECON-III: As Turkish youth, it is our duty to protect Turkey and Atatürk's reforms and raise her to a higher level. Despite the internal and external problems, our Republic is strong and firm.
Onur Öz MAN-III: Despite all the pessimistic pictures painted by others, we, the young, should not despair and we should work hard to achieve the goal of modernization.
Ertan Keskinsoy ECON-IV: If we really want to celebrate it we have to raise it up to the level it is supposed to be.
Onur Yiğit ELIT-III: I am honored and proud to be living in a Republic inherited from Atatürk.
Alça Dokuzoğlu ELIT-III: We could not come a long way. There is no difference between now and 75 years ago.
Murat Kınacı ELIT-III: The state system had been founded on firm grounds but got corrupted later on. I don't think it will get any better from this point on.
Selin Karaca ECON-II: Seventy-five years is not a short period of time. We are proud.
Ferişte Baykan ELIT-III: I am only 20 years old, the progress we made in the last 20 years is equal to what developed countries did in five years. However, Atatürk caught up with one-hundred years of western culture in the first ten years of the Republic.
Sezen Dolanay ELIT-III: There isn't a better regime than Republic, and we should appreciate it. The Turkish youth should keep in mind that they can shape the Turkish Republic in any way they wish.
Gülay Ünal CS-III: It is not important whether it is the seventy-fifth or seventy-sixth. It becomes important only when we assess how far we have come.
Esra Durceylan MATH-II: I owe it to the Republic to study at the university.
Nuray Yılmaz ELIT-III: It is nice to be governed by the Republic for 75 years, but we couldn't come a long way in 75 years.
Hale Doğan ELIT-III: I think it is being exaggerated. It is nice to have a Republic, but we don't deserve it. It did not develop fully. We have economic problems.
Nilüfer Gür ELIT-II: I am hopeful about the future. We have to work for peace in the future.
Duygu Pekbey IE-II: We have a very young country, still a lot has been accomplished. We have to protect our Republic.
Şengül Doğan IE-III: I hope we will survive for another 75 years.
Ilie Tsavadze POL-IV: Turkey is not modern but developing. Political parties prevent it from improving.
Andaç Gezginer IR-II: The Turkish youth should be thankful first of all to our great leader Atatürk and to all others who worked for the Turkish Republic.
Hakan Topsal MAN-II: I'd like to see many more seventy-five year periods pass without negotiating Atatürk's reforms, Republican principles, and secular democracy.
Baha Cırcı ECON-III: The Republic is the guarantee of our liberty. Let us preserve it.
Burcu Yel MAN-III: One day is not enough to celebrate the Republic. One day of remembrance is not enough.
Burak Anıl MAN-III: If things go like this there will not be anything in good shape but the military.
Oğuzhan Ünal ELIT-III: Turkish people have to be more conscientious about keeping and representing our Republic. I would like to see the Republic being maintained not by only a few but by the entire Turkish public.
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