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museum to a mosque stating that "The Turks have remained uncivilized, they are rude, and they will remain ." He added that "Turkey has learned to destroy, it has learned to appropriate the cultures of others and sometimes, when it does not benefit it, it destroys them and falsely presents cultures as
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