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Reuben'in Turkiye Blogu: June 2013
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Deniz Gezmiş, “The Turkish Che Guevarra”. Even before student protests engulfed the continent in 1968, Turkish students had begun protesting and organizing. Initial student radicalism was centered in campus groups called “Idea Clubs,” but by the late 1960s, members of these clubs were dominating university elections and speaking for the student-body as a whole. Throughout the summer new opportunities for action presented themselves: a major strike in early July followed by the arrival of the American Six...
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Reuben'in Turkiye Blogu: June 2012
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The Kemalist Project and Its Alternatives. Gavin D. Brockett, How Happy to Call Oneself a Turk. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. Sarah D. Sheilds, Fezzes in the River. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Ö r, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. A nation’s roots lie, but rather how the collective fantasy that there is. It has taken historians (as distinct group of scholars) quite some time to arrive at these qu...
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Reuben'in Turkiye Blogu: October 2013
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Ninety Years Since . . .What? Framing the Birth of the Turkish Republic. Mustafa Kemal and Hüseyin Rauf. On a Sunday night in late October 1923, eight men met for dinner in the Ankara home of Mustafa Kemal, the president of the Turkish assembly. These included the president himself as well as the prime minister, foreign minister, defense minister, two generals, and the commandant for the city. [1]. Such inter-communal tensions had led to the murder of over 100,000 Armenians in the late 1890s. The CUP lea...
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Reuben'in Turkiye Blogu: February 2013
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Mike Hammer and Sickle. The year was 1950 and Kemal Tahir was fresh out of prison and broke. A general amnesty had cut short his sentence by three years, but all told he’d been behind bars for twelve. In 1938 he and several other writers had been charged and found guilty of passing on subversive materials—in this case books by leftist writer Sabahattin Ali—to naval officers including Tahir’s own brother. While in prison, he also began translating various books into Turkish and sending the results off to ...
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Reuben'in Turkiye Blogu: January 2013
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Orhan Kemal: Courting Controversy. 8220;Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.' . . . . I says, 'What's this call, this sperit? An' I says, 'It's love. I love people so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes.' . . . .”. 8213; John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath. In 1938, while still in the army, he was discovered with copies of poetry by the Stalinist Russian poet Maxim Gorky and t...
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Reuben'in Turkiye Blogu: January 2014
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All Politics is Local, 2014: Mustafa Sarıgül and the CHP (6). Began circulating among CHP members. The book rehashed the accusations made against Sarıgül in 2001 that he had forged another member’s signature in order to block an inquiry into a Spanish arms manufacturer in 1991.[2]. 8217; Another group doesn’t approve [of me] either; they don’t find [me] intellectual and so forth.”[4]. Described his rallies as examples of his false populism:. Sarıgül’s Deputy Mayor of soliciting a 300,000TL bribe fr...
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Reuben'in Turkiye Blogu: September 2013
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Over a decade or more, heavy drinking can destroy the liver. Tissue normally capable of filtering toxins and regulating the chemical balance of the body are reduced to useless scarations. Poisonous substances build up in the body and a number of possible symptoms set in: weight-loss, itching, nausea, bloody discharges, and memory loss. Sait Faik Abasıyanık began experiencing some of these symptoms as early as 1944. [1]. By 1948, he was officially diagnosed. In 1936, followed by Cistern. Over the seven ye...
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Reuben'in Turkiye Blogu: August 2012
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Reuben'in Turkiye Blogu: April 2013
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The Long Road: Mehmed Uzun and the Kurdish Struggle for Rights. 8220;I was introduced to Turkish with a slap,” explained Mehmed Uzun on his deathbed,. Uzun was in Diyarbakır, the largest Kurdish city in the world. [2]. He had come there in September 2006 after being diagnosed with stomach cancer. For most of the past thirty years, he had been living in Sweden. By October 11. At his funeral two days later, 20,000 people turned out to wish him farewell. Since the early years of the Republic, Turkish leader...
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Reuben'in Turkiye Blogu: October 2012
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Not that new taxes are limited to lion's milk: a typical 50ml beer will likely go up at least a lira since a volume tax of .30 lira/litre has been levied. The tax on gas has been raised by eight percent—which is no small matter given that Turks pay the highest rates for gasoline in the world. [1]. State mandated bread prices are also expected to rise by a third and milk prices—like gasoline already comparatively high—will see increases in the near future. [3]. Observes, for a government seeking a quick-f...
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