An Addendum to Yesterday
And here, in today's Boston Globe, in light of what I wrote yesterday...'At Logan International Airport Tuesday morning, a United Airlines flight to Chicago was brought back to the gate after...
View ArticlePunished for being punished--My Father-in-Law sentenced to isolation.
So this week brings me to the current ‘Peace Process’ between the government and the Kurds. I have written nothing here about it because I am not qualified. I don’t have time to follow all the sources...
View ArticleCrazy's on the Rise!
Don't Stab the Kissers!There is a strange wind blowing in Turkey these days--someone write in and tell me I'm being paranoid. Last week in Ankara, a subway announcement chastised a couple they'd caught...
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This Way to the Revolution---
Last night, we were coming home from an eventful day on Taksim Square. Just to wind down, we’d gone for Turkish coffee at a street cafe in Kadıköy and were trying to catch a taxi...
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So where are we this week? So much has happened, is happening. Where do you start? I'm sorry but I have no pictures this week--maybe later. But I felt the need to get down what was happening NOW. I...
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Where is all this going? The week in Silivri, the weekend in Gezi Park
I must be careful of words—the old cliches don’t work anymore. Freedom, democracy, liberty, tolerance—the wrong people have used them for the wrong things for so many years. Sometimes with good...
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Chemical Warfare Begins Here
First of all—none of these videos are mine. I don’t claim them. They are from You Tube and Twitter, and have been circulating the social media that Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan called a scourge....
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The Standing Men and Women of Kadıköy (photos by Stephen Freer)
There is a new form of protest sweeping the country now—it started last night at 8:00PM after the brutal crackdown of the weekend (detailed in my last entry) with one man in Taksim Square and now seems...
View ArticleDemocracy in the Parks
The ‘waves’ of arrests have started. Yesterday, it was announced, that 2 out of 20 ‘supsects’ will be charged in the Çarşı wave (Çarşı is the Beşiktaş football fan club who lead the way...
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The Carnation March on Taksim--3 Pictures That Speak A Million Words
Three different pictures from last night's Carnation March seem to sum up the whole situation here in Turkey at the moment. I don't have actual photographs of them--sorry--but the...
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Gezi Parks Everywhere or How I Learned to Love the Flag
The Turkish flag at a march for a Kurdish victim ‘I’m so excited and nervous,’ the middle-aged Turkish woman said into the microphone. ‘I can barely speak. This night, we made history.’...
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Day Trips in Conag--
The homemade candles for the 'ziyaret'--all old Armenian or Urartuan places become shrines for local AlevisDay Trips in Conag (Or Xolxol, or Yalyadere, or Bingöl, or Kurdistan, or old Keghi)Conag—our...
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Day Hike Two--Through the High Pastures of Conag, A Naturalist's Hike
Malan bakır le le çune waran le (Oh, we moved house, we went up to the high pastures)Popular Kurdish folk song In the old days, before the mountains were mined and bloodied in...
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Kemal Seven's Defense at the so-called 'KCK' trials
ARTICLE as it appeared in Yuksekova News 'The Voice from Hakkari' and also ODATV on September 12th. The English Translation is MineLogic from Judge Ali Alçın--the terrorists most deadly tool, the...
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Kemal Seven's Court Defence (from the Septermber 13th Cumhuriyet Newspaper)
Kemal Seven's Defense on the Anniversary of the Coup (original Turkish here)(Translator's note--last night, September 20th, was the last day of this hearing. Out of the 97 prisoners, three were...
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The KCK Trial Resumes
One of the predecessors of the KCK trials No more long breaks--the KCK trial will now drive forward with occasional weeklong breaks until the government gets what it wants, I presume....
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Why I Haven't Posted In So Long
No Hay Banda I have not put up an entry on this blog in months and most likely whatever readership I had garnered is now gone. But there’s not been much to discuss—everything I’ve been...
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Conag at Election Time With A Side Trip to Harput
A flowering almond (?) tree in Harput WINTER CONAG, HARPUT, AND THE GREAT ELECTION FIASCO OF 2014 Restored House in Harput--The Şefik Gül Kültür Evi A lifetime of Social...
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On the Lycian Way--Part 1
This picture--and several others--is by DelalMy plan, folks, is this: A photo essay of Delal's and my Spring Break trip hiking the Lycian Way. For once, there will be a minimum of political agitation...
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On the Lycian Way Part 2--Electric Bugaloo
The mosaic at Letoön--Apollo's lyre on one side, Artemis's bow (?) on the other The roosters at Gey village were not very good hires, I feel, because they never learned that the crowing was to take...
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