A Student’s Life in Turkey 
     
    
   
   
    
     - Turkey calls itself a democ- 
     
     racy but it is not in the sense that 
     
     we know it. Armed army person- 
     
     nel still patrol the campuses of 
     
     the state-run universities. 
     
    

    
     Student organi- 
     
     zations are banned from the cam- 
     
     pus. Even AICSEC(Agsociation 
     
     International of Students in Eco- 
     
    
   
   
    
     nomics, Science, and commerce): 
     
    
   
   
    
     is not allowed to have it’s office 
     
     on campus. This is the student 
     
     exchange program that allowed 
     
     Valerie Kilfoil, full-time reporter 
     
     and part-time UNBSJ student to 
     
     work in Turkey on a newspaper 
     
     in Bursea. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kilfoil reports that students 
     
     are not allowed to form po- 
     
     litical organizations, as a re- 
     
     sult , generations of students 
     
     are growing up politically ig- 
     
     norant and susceptible to radi- 
     
     cal political groups such as the 
     
     banned communist party and 
     
     the KKK(kurdish workers party). 
     
     Student groups were banned fol- 
     
     lowing the september 12,1980 
     
    
   
   
    
     coup by the military. Groups 
     
     usually meet off campus in down- 
     
     town offices. 
     
    
   
   
    
     . University is very cheap in 
     
     Turkey,appriomately forty dollars 
     
     Canadian a year. However sonly 
     
     a small portion of the population 
     
     gets in. Of about 500 000 who 
     
     apply, roughly 100 000 will get to 
     
     attend. Those 100 000 will be se- 
     
     lected from the entrance exams. 
     
     Students get selected to go to 
     
     the university according to their 
     
     marks, for example those scor- 
     
     ing the very highest on entrance 
     
     exams go to the best university, 
     
     Middle East Technical University 
     
     in Ankara. Three years ago a pri- 
     
     vate university was built by the 
     
     government. It is open to any- 
     
     one who can pay the six million 
     
     lira a year ( $5 000 Canadian a 
     
     year). This university is dubed 
     
     the university of the “rich and 
     
     stupid” by other students. They 
     
     are looked down on in their cul- 
     
     ture because they do not earn 
     
     their place: 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The Date Series; Continued 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘The Divorce 
     
    
   
   
    
     Three years of eternal infinity passed 
     
    

    
     As John and Lisa continued the duet of mundaneness; 
     
     Then, Starzan fell; right on their neighbour’s lawn. 
     
     The neighbours cried “What was that?” 
     
    

    
     Another responded, “Oh..., Starzan. What was the score in the Hockey game?” 
     
     In the year before the fall, : 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lisa discovered she enjoyed buffets, 
     
     with the person who once told of the events of the day. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Trojan, Dry now, did not perspire as the groom once did; 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lisa admired that. 
     
    
   
   
    
     She discovered that Wendall was the best man after all. 
     
     John discovered the same truth. 
     
    
   
   
    
     So they got a divorce. 
     
    
   
   
    
     And everyone lived happily everafter knowing the truth. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     = Thursday, Apal 13,198 a 1399 === 
     
    
   
   
    
     As an exchange student Kil- 
     
     foil is enjoying her stay. The new 
     
     culture, the general way of life , 
     
     and hot weather are so appealing 
     
     she decided to stay longer than 
     
     her three month exchange. kilfoil 
     
     now works for the Turkish Daily 
     
     News, the only english paper in 
     
    
   
   
    
     , the country.Kilfoil has taken ad- 
     
    
   
   
    
     vantage of travel along the medit- 
     
     eranean and the proximity to Eu- 
     
     rope. She finds Turkey an ex- 
     
     cellent place to learn because of 
     
     its location between Europe and 
     
     Asia. “I have learned more about 
     
     the middle east than I ever have 
     
     at home, or ever could have. The 
     
     wars in Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq 
     
     suddenly take on a different sig- 
     
     nificance when they are being 
     
     fought only a day’s drive away.As 
     
     a journalist I’ve learned just how 
     
     free we are in Canada.” For ex- 
     
     ample in Turkey,300 journalists 
     
     were put on trial i 1988 for sto- 
     
     ties the “democratic” government 
     
     did not like. According to reports 
     
     many were tortured. 
     
    
   
   
    
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