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Drogba misunderstands: That was not a racist attack but a kind of middle finger…
…which might also be objectionable- that “obscene act” but it is good to understand right before accusing people with racism… Well, Turks like many other people, innovate new forms of... Read more
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Taken 2 (2012): Orientalising Istanbul…
After all debates on Orientalism, not much progress in American blockbusters. Istanbul that is represented in Taken 2 looks like somewhere from 1970s. Check out the police cars. Such old... Read more
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the Pretext used to attack American entities is a bigger insult to Islam…
Yahya Arhab/European Pressphoto Agency-Protesters sought to storm the United States embassy during a protest against an anti-Islamic film in Sana on Thursday. I could not follow the related news in... Read more
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Efes One Love Case: Conservative Islamists joins forces with mob power and local authorities
This week we have witnessed one of the most concrete cases of how Islamic conservatives are aiming to destroy others’ life styles and attempting to grow their hegemony over public.... Read more
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Operation Warmongering: A strange domestic alliance to encourage Turkey to attack Syria…
On the Twitter front 3 lumpen popular figures are provoking the public with the most vulgar nationalistic discourses. From left to right: Erol Köse, Atilla Taş and Nihat Doğan. Pro-government... Read more
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Behzat Ç, final episode of the 2nd season tonight
The only Turkish TV serials I have been following is Behzat Ç. Plot summaries of Behzat Ç from IMDB is here: Centered around a personally troubled, officially discredited police chief... Read more
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Dear Prof. David Harvey, here is why the open letter adressed to you about Bilgi U. is bullshit:
Dear Prof. Harvey, I am deeply honored that you will be our guest at Istanbul Bilgi University. I realized that an open letter is addressed to you about your visit... Read more
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Abdullah Gül, Turkey’s President, visits Silicon Valley, attempts to whitewash Turkey’s worsening censorship record…
In a 1,5 hour live interview in a TV Show that focuses on social media, the President explicitly and his interviewers implicitly stated that there was actually no web censorship... Read more
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Turkish Football Federation in big time whitewashing (of its own mess)
After all buzz, some football players are used as scapegoats, some symbolic charges and all teams are relieved… So all year drama seems to be about putting FB President Mr.... Read more
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the EU propaganda video shows that EU cannot deal with the enlargement…
It seems that those who authorized the video above has no idea about semiology or has nothing to do all studies done in Cultural Studies. With a good intention, this video... Read more
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Why I cannot agree with Prof. Turkle’s TEDTalk on social media… And a cyberculture roundup…
Recently, Professor Sherry Turkle made a TED Talk. She argued: Turkle, a psychologist who leads MIT’s Initiative on Technology and Self, believes that while our constant communication and social media... Read more
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“Will Turkey lose altitude if Paul Auster does not come?” In fact, yes…
PM Erdoğan yesterday publicly declared that they are a conservative democratic party and they would like to breed new religious generations. I am not sure about the democratic part, but... Read more
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Erkan quoted in The Media Line piece: “Turkey’s Jails Filling Up With Journalists”
TURKEY’S JAILS FILLING UP WITH JOURNALISTS Kurdish reporter’s arrest over weekend is the latest in wave of detentions Aziz Tekin, a correspondent for the Kurdish-language newspaper Azadiya Welat, had the... Read more
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#hrantdink Welcome to the new Turkish Deep State: there is no organized crime in Hrant Dink Assasination….
Despite apparent organizational background and strong signs of state officials’ involvement, Hrant Dink trial ended up declaring that this assassination had no organization behind and it was a personal attempt... Read more
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A hypocritical apology will not sooth Dersim anxieties…
CHP is a hopeless can and they cannot apologize for a massacre from their golden age period. AKP seizes this moment and forces them to the corner. AKP leadership adopted... Read more
