Erkan's mumbles

Türkiye İslamcılığının yeni bir dip noktası… Fatih Camii?nde Protesto: ?Katil İran, Katil Hizbullah?

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Haberi Haksöz‘de.  Ben Friendfeed‘de dolanırken gördüm. Birçok İslami kuruluşun dâhil olduğu Suriye Halkıyla Dayanışma Platformunun çağrısıyla bugün Fatih Camii?nde toplanan Müslümanlar Banyas?ta Esed?e bağlı çeteler tarafından kadın-çocuk demeden gerçekleştirilen katliamı ve yine Hatay?a bağlı Reyhanlı ilçesinde meydana gelen bombalı saldırıları protesto ettiler. Kusayr direnişinin selamlandığı eylemde Esed, Baas lobisi, Rusya, İran ve Hizbullah aleyhinde sloganlar … Read more

Drogba misunderstands: That was not a racist attack but a kind of middle finger…

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…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 obscenity all the time. I have been thinking a few days and I could honestly not find this act in this special context as racism… … Read more

Taken 2 (2012): Orientalising Istanbul…

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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 cars…. and you will throw grenades in one of the most crowded corners of the city and they will let you throw more:) … And … Read more

the Pretext used to attack American entities is a bigger insult to Islam…

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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 great detail but what I understand is that: an a-obscure Israeli director who lives in US produces a very low quality an anti-Islam movie and … Read more

Efes One Love Case: Conservative Islamists joins forces with mob power and local authorities

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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. While we were about to attend Efes Pilsen One Love festival that has been regularly organized at santralistanbul, Eyüp, Istanbul, for 5 years, we have … Read more

Operation Warmongering: A strange domestic alliance to encourage Turkey to attack Syria…

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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 columnists and journalists. Some Liberal minded intellectuals or youth activists who happen to have some Western (American)-backed funding in some projects. Most of Islamists with … Read more

Behzat Ç, final episode of the 2nd season tonight

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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 and his inharmonious police team in Ankara Police Force. Even though the show usually focuses on murders and other crimes that happens on a weekly … Read more

Dear Prof. David Harvey, here is why the open letter adressed to you about Bilgi U. is bullshit:

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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 and talks at the university I have been lecturing. I did need to write to clear some of the arguments in that letter which is … Read more

Abdullah Gül, Turkey’s President, visits Silicon Valley, attempts to whitewash Turkey’s worsening censorship record…

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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 in Turkey. Digital natives are bombarding this event at Ekşi Sözlük or at several Friendfeed feeds, ie here and here The presenter of the show … Read more

Turkish Football Federation in big time whitewashing (of its own mess)

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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. Yıldırım into jail so that he cannot challenge some lapdog businessmen in major bids… Disciplinary Committee announces ruling on rigging scandal from Hurriyet Daily News … Read more

the EU propaganda video shows that EU cannot deal with the enlargement…

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc62SOMYExA 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 depicts the imaginary of xenophobics EU citizens who imagine the EU land as feminine to be raped by barbaric immigrants and attempts to teach a … Read more

?Will Turkey lose altitude if Paul Auster does not come?? In fact, yes…

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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 AKP leadership has definitely turned into a third worldist conservative lot. But of course even this would be an insult to great Third Worldist thinkers. … Read more

Erkan quoted in The Media Line piece: “Turkey?s Jails Filling Up With Journalists”

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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 misfortune of becoming a news item himself over the weekend when he became the 105th journalist in Turkey to be put behind bars………. ………Erkan Saka, … Read more

#hrantdink Welcome to the new Turkish Deep State: there is no organized crime in Hrant Dink Assasination….

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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 with strong nationalist feelings. It is a shame to live in this country. After 5 years of distraction, Turkish State apparatus whitewash any possible links … Read more