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Re:RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017 by misingnoglic on Monday April 17, 2017 @04:12PM (#14134001)
Is there any government good for human rights? I'm thinking about Iran, which is obviously a horrible place now for human rights, but it wasn't exactly a wonderland before the Islamic revolution either.
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Re:RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017 by jacquesm on Monday April 17, 2017 @05:35PM (#14134617)
> but it wasn't exactly a wonderland before the Islamic revolution either.

No, the Shah was pretty brutal. Besides SAVAK there were many other really bad episodes, one of which I read about some years ago but have never forgotten about as the epitome of decadency:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,500_year_celebration_of_the_...

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