Turkey is not a country to live like a civilized human…

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Blogger is censored today. There is no access to Blogger accounts from Turkey…. Personally, I am now looking for an opportunity to leave this country…  World’s largets blog hosting service banned in TurkeyEarthtimes (press release), UK – 4 hours agoAnkara – A court in south-east Turkey on Friday banned Turkish internet users from accessing Blogger, the world’s … Read more

"The First Annual Savage Minds Awarding of teh Excellents

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Savage Minds, the most significant multi-authored anthropology blog starts anthropology blog awards! The First Annual Savage Minds Awarding of teh Excellents almost has a full slate of candidates (only a couple of nominations came in by email). I’m shooting for 6 nominees in each category. We need a few more before we can move on … Read more

2nd day in the Ergenekon trial

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"Is non-Western modernization possible?

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Is non-Western modernization possible?

As may be recalled, an important notion was coined by renowned sociologist Nilüfer Göle in 1992: "non-Western modernization."

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Albums that accompany Erkan's bored and empty days…

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After submitting the draft, I feel a great emptiness in my life. Nothing is solved yet. 48 days left for the defense. It may still be early to get feedback, I have my own list of tasks to do. But I don’t feel to re-start before weekend. I made a new music selection I will … Read more

"AFP: Turkish trial against 86 alleged plotters opens chaotically

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It has been three months and they could not even prepare a room to start a proper trial.  Like the indictment itself, the court process starts in mess…

AFP: Turkish trial against 86 alleged plotters opens chaotically

Turkey's President Abdullah Gul (C) heads a National Security ...

Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul (C) heads a National Security Council meeting in Ankara October 21, 2008. REUTERS/Mustafa Oztartan/President’s Press Office-Handout

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"Key EU committee endorses Ashton

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Key EU committee endorses Ashton

A key Brussels committee agrees to endorse Baroness Ashton as the UK’s nominee for EU trade commissioner.

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"Global Survey: Blogging journalists, two cultures collide

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Global Survey: Blogging journalists, two cultures collide

By Lauren Drablier

In a recent survey, 200 blogging journalists from 30 different countries were interviewed about the effects of blogging on the process of journalism.  According to the survey, respondents came from all sectors of the news industry; almost half worked in the newspaper industry, and one third were online-only or freelance……..

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:Why I Blog The truths of blogging are provisional, its ethos collective and messy, says Andrew Sullivan. It brings writer to reader in a way that is visceral, even brutal…

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Ergenekon trial starts!

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I have been hearing in the news that the Prison is being prepared for this big trial for a month now. As a consequence of special Turkish planning mentality, the trial stopped short after it started because the room was not nig enough!

The judge adjourned for half an hour after he stated that was the biggest room they could find. 

The list of accused. 

Ergenekon trial becomes one of the 7 big trials in Turkish judiciary history:

MSP DAVASI: Necmettin Erbakan’ın Genel Başkanlığı’nı yaptığı ve 1981 yılında kapatılan Milli Selamet Partisi ile ilgili davada ise 1985 yılında sonuçlanırken tüm sanıklar beraat etti.

DEV SOL DAVASI: Dev-Sol davasında yargılanan sanık sayısında ise rekora ulaşıldı. Bin 243 kişinin yargılandığı dava henüz kesin olarak sonuçlanmadı.

YASSIADA DAVALARI: 1950-1960 döneminde Başbakanlık yapan Demokrat Parti Genel Başkanı Adnan Menderes’in idam edilmesi ile sonuçlandı. Yassıada’da yapılan yargılama sonrasında Menderes’le birlikte Menderes ve Dışişleri Bakanı Fatin Rüştü Zorlu ile Maliye Bakanı Hasan Polatkan da idam edildi.

12 EYLÜL DAVALARI: 12 Eylül 1980 tarihinden sonra da çok sanıklı davalar ardarda geldi. Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi davası ile ilgili olarak o dönemde genel başkanlık görevini yürüten Alpaslan Türkeş’le birlikte 392 kişi yargılandı. Yargılama yıllarca devam etti.

DİSK DAVASI: Barış Davası’nda aydınlar, DİSK Davası’nda da yüzlerce sendikacı hakkında dava açıldı. Aylarca süren bu davalarda da sanıkların çoğu beraat ederken, bazı sanıklar hakkındakı suçlamalar zaman aşımına uğradı.

DENİZ GEZMİŞ DAVASI: Deniz Gezmiş ve arkadaşları Ankara 1 Numaralı Sıkıyönetim Mahkemesi’nde yargılandılar. Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan ve Hüseyin İnan’ın cezaları 6 Mayıs 1972 tarihinde infaz edildi. 

 Under normal conditions it will take 10 days to finish reading the Indictment…

 

Kemal Alemdaroğlu. One of the accuseds. A big time provocateur.  As a former rector of Istanbul University, he is personally responsible for spreading the headscarf ban and inciting the last decade’s row on headscarf. He may escape from arrest in the end but i would not mind if he did rot in prison… 

Ergenekon trial begins in Turkey 20/10 07:44 CET euronews
Ergenekon case: Trial of the century starts today Today’s Zaman
Turkey puts 86 on trial over planned coup Times Online
Independent – Aljazeera.net

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"Climate debate postponed

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 News

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Massacre of the Innocents, 1565-7. In Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting Exhibition Opens at The Royal Collection

MAIN FOCUS: Climate debate postponed | 17/10/2008

The EU has postponed its climate debate until December, but despite the financial crisis is continuing to adhere to its emissions reduction targets. This has annoyed Poland and Italy in particular, which have repeatedly warned that climate protection must not overburden industry. The European press is at odds about what the EU summit has actually achieved for the climate and how the EU should now proceed.

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New antropologi.info at your service!

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NEW: antropologi.info call for papers and job announcements (beta)

By Lorenz

I have installed a new bulletin board for job announcements and call for papers. Announcements are now easier accessible.

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Gorgous is right word for these four posters made by Favianna for CODEPINK. found in CODEPINK: Make Out Not War

 

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Heidegger's "Being and Time" in Turkish

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No! it is not the first time. There has been a translation around. However, after 4 years of work, Prof. Kaan Ökten issued his own translation of this major work. This major work of Heidegger, is provided to Turkish readers with possibly the most authoritative translation. Prof. Ökten had also prepared a 240-page reading guide for the translation. My philosophical tendencies are quite different from Heideggerian thought but I cannot stop admiring this major work itself and Prof. Ökten’s translation efforts.

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When I was taking this picture, Prof. Kaan Ökten was working on the translation. Now it is done. Congratulations! 

Here is some more food for thought: 

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Turkish Establishment attacks Taraf altogether.

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PM Erdoğan actively supported Gen. Başbuğ yesterday and today.  Mr. Erdoğan was very offended by today’s Taraf headline: "His Pasha’s Prime Minister". He is probably just too happy to be seen as an ally of the army now. Establishment journalists today worked hard to attack Taraf.

To the chief of staff

By TARAF, AHMET ALTAN

Where do you get the courage to speak so recklessly, so impolitely and so threateningly? Do you even hear what you are saying?

Who are you trying to scare? Do you really believe you can scare us? Let me tell you something in a friendly manner, general, please stop making such threats, such gestures full of hatred and anger. These do not scare us. Don’t you understand that some people will do anything to make their country a happy and free one? Please try to understand this and abandon these efforts to frighten us.

 

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"Turkey: Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2008..

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Turkey: Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2008

By Eurozine News Item

To coincide with Turkey’s status as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2008, Eurozine publishes articles from "Varlik" magazine’s 75-year anniversary anthology. The texts display many of the concerns that continue to occupy Turkish writers today. Also: Turkey in the Eurozine archives

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"EU 'resolute' on climate targets

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EU ‘resolute’ on climate targets

The EU will keep to its targets to tackle climate change despite worries about slowing economies, the French president says.

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