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Roundup: Alain de Botton’s Week at the Airport; LSD art; Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers;

May 31, 2013October 23, 2010 by admin

Alain de Botton: A Week at the Airport from Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder For one week, writer Alain de Botton worked from his desk in the middle of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, and wrote a book about it, called A Week at the Airport. LIFE magazine on “LSD Art,” 1966 from Boing Boing … Read more

Conscientious Objector İnan Süver, still in prison!

October 13, 2010 by admin

Conscientious Objector Süver Remains in Prison from Bianet :: English The Izmir Şirinyer Military Court dismissed the request for the release of conscientious objector İnan Süver. Süver is said to have been sentenced to imprisonment of 35 months. The case was adjourned to 15 November. from the CNN Turk’s new ad campaign found in CNN … Read more

Orhan Pamuk receives 2010 Norman Mailer Prize

October 4, 2010 by admin

Orhan Pamuk | 2010 Norman Mailer Lifetime Achievement Prize from Mavi Boncuk by M.A.M Mavi Boncuk | The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony is proud to announce this year?s Mailer Prize winners to be honored at the Center?s Annual Benefit Gala, which will be held on October 19, 2010, 7:00 PM … Read more

“Hot weather triggers air-conditioner usage record in Turkey

August 8, 2010 by admin

Hot weather triggers air-conditioner usage record in Turkey from Hurriyet Dailynews Extremely hot weather and industrial consumption pushed Turkey?s air-conditioner usage to 700 million kilowatts per hour on Friday. Turk accused of beating wife ‘was dancing’ from BBC News | Europe | World Edition A man accused of beating his wife tells a New Zealand … Read more

Egoyan to shoot Orhan Pamuk’s Snow

August 6, 2010August 6, 2010 by admin

Atom Egoyan to shoot film based on Orhan Pamuk’s novel
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Canadian director of the Armenian origin Atom Egoyan plans to shoot a film based on ?Snow? novel by Turkish writer and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. …

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NPR piece on Sezen Aksu: The Voice of Istanbul

April 17, 2010 by admin

Istanbul from Orhan Pamuk’s eye on display in Barcelona

Istanbul Modern set to discuss austere northern European photography

from Hurriyet Dailynews

As part of long-running art discussion series, Istanbul Modern will be hosting a closer examination of northern European photography Saturday.

“Maureen Freely interview on Ataturk, Kurdish human rights, Orhan Pamuk, and the Armenian genocide

April 14, 2010 by admin

Maureen Freely interview on Ataturk, Kurdish human rights, Orhan Pamuk, and the Armenian genocide » The Comment Factory
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The Cyberpunk Educator (and other selected videos)

January 31, 2010 by admin

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9106730147624587352#

The Cyberpunk Educator

1980’s Study of Cyberpunk Film for structural literary and political content. Or if you, prefer, the story of existentialist robots with guns. Free film, made available by www.cyberpunkfilm.com

Oh boy, so JİTEM never existed…

January 5, 2010January 4, 2010 by admin

Turkish army continues embarrass itself. In a recent official statement they denied the existence of JİTEM. This intelligence unit formed within Turkish Gendarmerie had been effectively used in fight against PKK and notarious with illegal practices… Any suprise? Today, Star daily published some photos and documents about the existence of this intelligence unit…

A rotten year for the military

by ÖMER TAŞPINAR

Not surprisingly, as far as Western coverage of Turkish politics goes, it was once again The Economist that offered the most convincing verdict on how 2009 will be remembered in Turkey. Here is the opening salvo from last week?s article: ?It has been a rotten year for Turkey?s generals.,

General Staff statement lacks credibility

by FATMA DİŞLİ ZIBAK

The General Staff continues to draw criticism for a statement it made regarding the apprehension of seven military officers who were caught tailing Kadir Kayan, a judge at the Ankara 11th High Criminal Court.

Numerous military documents prove JİTEM’s existence
Today’s Zaman
JİTEM is also thought to be an instrumental arm of the terrorist Ergenekon organization, which is charged with plotting against the government.

Turkey’s national security not compromised in the Cosmic room search…

January 1, 2010 by admin

…because cosmic room residents were busy with creating internal enemies and crushing them….

Kenan Evren (L), former chief of staff who could lead the coup d’etat and İlker Başbuğ (R) who could not lead perform the coup d’etat. Eminimsi blog plays with a traditional drawing that compares the vendor who sells on cash and who sells on account…

‘Secularists have little respect for people’s votes, human rights’
Today’s Zaman
Nobel laureate and Turkish author Orhan Pamuk on Tuesday criticized secularists in Turkey who consider democracy a threat that may turn the country into an
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Wednesday evening habitus post

December 2, 2009 by erkan

I am auditing our Media MA course on research methodologies at the back seat, participating sometimes, losing myself in the web or thoughts in other times. My friends wait me for a card-playing session and I have half an hour more to go. It is not necessary to be here in the class, but i actually like it to audit. Nice theoretical discussion, a nice group of students and Halil hoca is a playful lecturer.

For more than 10 days, I have the hype mode but sometimes I fell hard like this afternoon. Now I recover again. Too much work to do but in general I am productice. I am getting back at my usual reading pace, working on some vital issues like necessary documentation to become an Assistant Professor. Anyway, still good news from Beşiktaş follow and a bunch of unrelated stuff I have come accros to towards the end of this post….

Aids awareness campaign from Barcelona Spain with a very obvious but also very strong tagline ?Fuck You SIDA? (Fuck You Aids).
The organisation Federació d?Associacions Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana says: Hate this disease and fight it with the use of condoms.FOUND IN Fuck You SIDA!

Step by step, Kurdish initiative continues….

November 14, 2009 by erkan

We were expecting more fist-fighting in the parliament meeting on Friday but relatively civilized quarrels dominated Friday’s meeting. Main opposition CHP is gone all crazy- literally indeed- and their reaction is ridiculous and beyond reason. Their childlike reaction and nearly criminal discourse (one higher official of CHP explicity stated that the best solution is what the State did during Dersim Rebellion, that is outright massacre…) have to be contained. I believe that AKP, DTP and a few liberals with possible indirect support from MHP can further the Initiative. Yes, MHP, nationalist party, does in fact acted quite civilized yesterday and despite their harsh criticism on the Kurdish Initiative their love of and support for the State may turn out to be a positive sign in this case. Because they wery well realized that this initiative may help unite the nation again. Armed suppression did not work as the the three decades had demonstrated…

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal addresses members of parliament as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (L) and his Education Minister Nimet Cubukcu listen in the background during a debate at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara, November 13, 2009. Turkey’s parliament is set to discuss on Friday reforms designed to boost the rights of the country’s Kurdish minority and end a 25-year separatist conflict, moves seen boosting its European Union membership ambitions.REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Turkey unveils reforms for Kurds

from BBC News

The Turkish government announces plans to expand the rights of Kurds, who for years have alleged discrimination.

A full list of reforms in Turkish here.

Museum of Innocence is out in English…

October 30, 2010October 26, 2009 by erkan

last updated: 30 Oct 2010

I have read the novel, The Museum of Innocence, in Turkish last year. In strictly literary terms, this is his weakest novel. However, a very different sort of project intended here. An actual museum has been built in Istanbul and will be opened soon. This book is a novel-catalogue that actual museum and a great documentary of a particular section of Istanbul’s everyday life. Another intervention to the lives of republican Turkish elites. In the mean time, I have a plan to assign the first 100 pages to my first year students which has a very rich account of approaches to relations, sex and gender roles which are still valid in contemporary Turkish lives.

I was not in love with the literary level of narratives particularly but towards the end I fell in love and in the last pages I remember feeling sad and crying… Thank you Orhan Pamuk. You do enrich our lives.

Social fabric roundup

October 17, 2009 by erkan

trilemma: rotten, soldier, objector

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A documentary from Turkey examining how gays and the Turkish military view each other in a complex and changing society in which military service is considered a rite of passage for every man. The Turkish army regards gays as sick or diseased and issue medical exemption reports to gays known as ?rotten? reports. Gays have to decide whether to try to get such a report, do their military service, or become conscientious objectors.

LINKS to DOWNLOAD HERE.

"The century of Claude Lévi-Strauss

November 2, 2008 by erkan

The century of Claude Lévi-Strauss

How the great anthropologist, now approaching his 100th birthday, has earned a place in the prestigious Pléiade library

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Roundup: Alain de Botton’s Week at the Airport; LSD art; Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers;

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Conscientious Objector İnan Süver, still in prison!

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Orhan Pamuk receives 2010 Norman Mailer Prize

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“Hot weather triggers air-conditioner usage record in Turkey

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Egoyan to shoot Orhan Pamuk’s Snow

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NPR piece on Sezen Aksu: The Voice of Istanbul

Istanbul from Orhan Pamuk’s eye on display in Barcelona

Istanbul Modern set to discuss austere northern European photography

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“Maureen Freely interview on Ataturk, Kurdish human rights, Orhan Pamuk, and the Armenian genocide

Maureen Freely interview on Ataturk, Kurdish human rights, Orhan Pamuk, and the Armenian genocide » The Comment Factory
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The Cyberpunk Educator (and other selected videos)

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Oh boy, so JİTEM never existed…

A rotten year for the military

General Staff statement lacks credibility

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Turkey’s national security not compromised in the Cosmic room search…

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Wednesday evening habitus post

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Step by step, Kurdish initiative continues….

Turkey unveils reforms for Kurds

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Museum of Innocence is out in English…

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Social fabric roundup

trilemma: rotten, soldier, objector

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"The century of Claude Lévi-Strauss

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