"They cannot aim to separate the unity of the country by trying to create minorities on the basis of protecting, improving and spreading any other languages and cultures other than Turkish language and culture," he said.
The complexities of the ethnic map made it impossible to draw state boundaries that entirely coincided with ethnic divisions and thus created minority problems that were to plague the region for generations.
We now have 50 million people in Iraq and Afghanistan with a chance for freedom; democracy inching forward in the Middle East; hope in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; 5 percent unemployment; a 3.8percentt rise in the gross domestic product; several million jobs created; minority achievement gap narrowing; two Supreme Court justices and counting.
Governing by majority by definition creates minorities - whose interests are then more often than not under-served.
It set in motion events that eventually increased the number of black students and faculty, and created minority-oriented academic programs.
The lowest-scoring of the group, Miracle Makers, has had one of the largest and most rapidly growing programs since it was established in 1986 by a state grant aimed at creating minority-run agencies in neighborhoods with the greatest need.
His main motives, he insists, were to create a minority district and to reduce the balkanization of the southeastern part of the state.
You'd have to go out of your way not to create overwhelmingly minority (and Democratic) districts on the South Side of Chicago, in the Bronx or in parts of Los Angeles or South Texas, violating nonpartisan redistricting principles like compactness and contiguity.
Where Islamist radicals have insinuated themselves, often through Wahhabist Saudi support, they have managed to create agitating minority fortresses across the Muslim World, yet at the same time they have alienated the larger societies in which they operate.
In recent years, the department has used money earmarked to create a minority-recruiting unit for other uses, refused to document its performance to auditors and done little to address the virtual segregation of elite commands.
