More than a month, I was working and thinking to say something about Somali pirates, how the issue is regarded by public, and more important, authorities. An issue created by corporations and fed by everybody, just to give way to panic and a rule changing. Nobody wins when people are hold for ransom, and whole ships with their cargo are hold as well. The solution seems logical, but nobody applies it. Not any organism. I don't even know why nobody thinks of who is that organism, the authority … [Read more...]
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Turkey and Turkish politics – part four
With the previous post on the topic, I ended the period of Turkey's formation as a "modern" country, a period where the people was ordered to look to the European West instead of Mecca. I haven't mentioned the fact that Iran's Shah Reza Pahlavi I, was a great admirer of Atatürk, wanting to do the same, in Iran. More to know of The expat Shah's father, is his admiration for another "great" man of the modern history. When you wish for power and you got it, you may think that … [Read more...]
Turkey and Turkish politics – part three
I'm very late with part three of this short Turkish history briefing, especially because I was busy with things more trendy, like rising money for charitable reasons or chatting on Twitter, and because I was very confused on talking objectively about this chapter, which is mostly about the creator of the Turkish modern state, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. I'm not going to repeat when he was born, I'm telling you that he was born in Salonika, Ottoman Empire, actually Thessaloniki, Greece. A thing the … [Read more...]
A few facts about Turkey and Turkish politics – part two
In the first part of this topic, you were briefed of Turks origins as people and The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire of which I'm going to finish here. After the Young Turks revolution and the second Constitutional Era, in the Empire major reforming attitudes were shown, the Cretans declared union with Greece, the Albanians declared the Latin Alphabet as the standard script and the Italians declared war. It happened in 1919. Seeing how easy it was, the Balkan League attacked … [Read more...]
A few facts about Turkey and Turkish politics
I like Turkey. I lived there for a significant number of years, and I think I grasped somehow the local spirit. If I have sometimes different opinions than the mainstream, my reasons are personal. I had the opportunity to have transited quick enough the "foreigner" status, although this not making me quite a genuine Turk. For a number of years I lived in a very closed community, with me in and out of it, depending on my moods and the degree of common interests we shared. Here come the personal … [Read more...]
Kitchen Utensils, a Way of Artistic Cooking
Kitchen utensils are at least as important as the cooking itself, for creating the perfect meal. I've seen a German cook once, on a pro veggie television, cooking with nice fry pans, but cutting with a minuscule knife directly on the table, taking all the components with his sausage like fingers, and throwing them in the pan, after he poured olive oil directly from the bottle, some commercial brand, always the same, saying: "and now, after the pan is hot enough, four soup spoons of Mediterranean … [Read more...]
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