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Atay was born in 1934, near the Black Sea port town of İnebolu—the city where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic, had donned a jaunty Panama hat to give a speech decrying the barbarism of the fez and other Ottoman fashions.
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Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Lyle noticed that the article’s comments were skeptical that girls would descend into such barbarism.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, Haitian ethnicity itself is becoming synonymous with barbarism and criminality.
—Roxane Gay, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
The group embraces barbarism as strategy; beheadings, rape, and other grotesque acts are not byproducts of its wars but deliberate tools to intimidate enemies and reward supporters.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2016
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Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Lyle noticed that the article’s comments were skeptical that girls would descend into such barbarism.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, Haitian ethnicity itself is becoming synonymous with barbarism and criminality.
—Roxane Gay, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2024
The group embraces barbarism as strategy; beheadings, rape, and other grotesque acts are not byproducts of its wars but deliberate tools to intimidate enemies and reward supporters.
—Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2016
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“Barbarism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barbarism. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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