The editor of Slate ( http : / / www . slate . com ), who has been subjected to a great deal of scrutiny himself due to his leap from print to the untilled fields of electronic journalism, titled his first Slate column " Introduction and Apologia " _ and then proceeded to explain that recent media attention, while appreciated, " also makes us nervous ."
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In 2001, the Turkish government invited Assyrians / Syriacs to return to Turkey, but some speculate that the offer was more of a publicity stunt, as a land law passed a short time before caused Assyrians who owned untilled farms or land with forests on them ( which a large amount did, as those in diaspora could not till or maintain the properties they owned while living elsewhere ) to have the land they owned confiscated by the state and sold to third parties.
