December 2010
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November 2010
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Kanadalı aktör Leslie Nielsen öldü →
Leslie Nielsen is trending in #Turkey too? →
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Önder Sav'dan inciler →
Laiklik o kadar karmaşık bir kavram ki ne ben tam olarak algılayabilirim ne de sayın başkanım Deniz Baykal. (Telefonunu açık unuttuğu sırada dinlenen ifadelerden.)
Paranı Araplara kaptırma. Bakarsın orda Muhammed bırakmaz seni„Sen o yüzden şey yapma. (Hacca gitmek isteyen bir vatandaşla konuşurken)
Laiklik Başbakan Erdoğan’ın küçücük beynine sığmayacak kadar geniş bir kavramdır.
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The House of Saud cannot control the Turkish media...
I’ve been perusing the various Turkish newspapers for news on wikileaks, trying to find out how often they mention the House of Saud and its various (generally publicly known) crimes.
First conclusion: Turkish newspapers are altogether freer than their Arab counterparts. عيب، يا عرب۔ عيب۔
Second conclusion: Zaman and Hürriyet are less to be trusted than Milliyet and Radikal.
Third...
The Arabic of Mosul carries the influence of the... →
I’m looking for confirmation of this information. The merger of غ and ر seems to be confirmed by this source.
Clarifications and thoughts on the previous...
The title is hilarious because even if this information is false (and I believe it to be true), is this the first time the US has funded terrorism? Is it the most significant? Clearly not, on both counts.
I’m trying to worry less about people who blame the Kurdish problem, Southeast problem and PKK problem on “foreign influence”, because it’s worth noting that there is...
WikiLeaks may show US has helped terrorist group →
Several of the documents set to be published by WikiLeaks this weekend are believed to show the US has been helping Turkey’s Kurdish separatist movement the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party.
Naturally this information will be used by the fascists to advance the claim that all Kurdish nationalism is the result of “foreign” influence, but that shouldn’t stop me from...
Non-Turkish speakers:
That is one of the most interesting things I have put up here about identity politics in the Turkish Republic and you missed out on it because you don’t speak Turkish.