Very bad things happens in the world, some are simply mistakes, others are carefully planned events. I would have included this post in my underground category, "The Shadows", but it is of great actuality. I wonder how international media is following a "trend" like sheep, without digging a little more for facts. I'm a little bit disappointed by Russia's reaction to the jet fighter incident last week. It wasn't kosher at all, from both parts, one being Russia and the other one, Turkey, of … [Read more...]
Pope Francis Doesn’t Love the Turks
"We will not allow historical incidents to be taken out of their genuine context, and be used as a tool to campaign against our country," are the words said by the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan after Pope Francis urged the Christian European Lieders to recognize the killing of "up to 1.5 million Armenians"[sic] by the Ottoman Empire soldiers in 1915 as "the first genocide of the twentieth century". Not only that, but His Holiness urged the international community to recognize it as … [Read more...]
Pope Francisc in Turkey
After a meeting in Jerusalem with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, at the end of May, this year, His Holiness, Pope Francisc, visited Turkey these days, in order to meet His All-Holiness again. A lot of things happened. In his first day, he went to Ankara to meet Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, an Islamist President. Because he doesn't drink alcohol, he is considered "extreme Islamist", which is lame, because the keepers of the faith are not drinking or intoxicating themselves with … [Read more...]
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Is Now, the New Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is the "Man of the People". I have featured Turkish Prime Minister many times in my blogs. I had a grudge against him from long ago, when he played the dissident and became the most freely advertised politician in Turkish history, maybe just a little bit less than Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. [source] I have been wrong all along, because after years of bad mouthing him, as a two faced painted Taliban, I now admire him without restraint. I am a little bit ("just a little … [Read more...]
Turkish PacMan Eats Twitter
Twitter has been banned in Turkey. It is nothing unnatural, considering the Turkish past, especially the recent one, since the beginning of the internet era. What I say here, now, is from an uncontested personal view, and it is not my intention to create any discontent between Turkey and its neighbors or other passionate social media consumer nations. In Turkey, the access banning of certain sites is not news. Not that Twitter is the most accessed Social Media site in the democratic country, not … [Read more...]
Turkish “Occupy”?
After months of verbal gymnastics from the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regarding the South-Eastern neighbor, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi accused him on Saturday of "terrorizing" his own people and called on him to resign. It's a ping-pong on diplomatic level. Turkey and Syria actually have territorial issues. "The demands of the Turkish people do not justify this violence, and if Erdoğan is incapable of using non-violent methods, then he should quit," state … [Read more...]