tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post704030825672518472..comments2024-03-23T09:27:34.737+02:00Comments on Traditionalists: Dugin in plot to topple government of Turkey?!Mark Sedgwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09998818251387897344noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29711878.post-38162497600032455142009-01-27T19:04:00.000+02:002009-01-27T19:04:00.000+02:00Dugin's main Turkish partner is Doğu Perinçek,...Dugin's main Turkish partner is Doğu Perinçek, leader of the "Workers Party". However, this alliance came about in spite not because of Dugin's affinity to traditionalism. Perinçek is a former Maoist which now wxposes a extremely nationalist version of Kemalism. He ca rathe be considered as pursuing the Young Turk affinity to "vulgar malterialism" (Büchner, Haeckel). Traditionalism is in Turkey quite popular among some of the more "intlellectual" Islamic movements such as the Nurcus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com