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2013’ten 2014’e; ‘Türk modeli’
Geride bıraktığımız 2013 yılına, ‘islam ve demokrasinin bir arada yaşayabileceğinin en güçlü örneği’ olarak tanımlanan ‘Türk modeli’nin yaşadığı sarsıntısı damgasını vurdu. “Stratejik Derinlik” kitabıyla daha bakan olmadan ünü buralara kadar yayılan Ahmet Davutoğlu’nun Dışişleri Bakanlığı ile başlayan diplomasi baharı umutlandırmıştı. Ancak birbiri ardına tekrar edilen hatalar zinciri, 2014’te diplomasideki umutları hayli zayıflattı.
No to right wing parties in Europe, says the Turkish right
"Nazis came out of the elections in Europe!" That was the headline in an Islamic newspaper in the wake of center- and right-wing parties making visible gains in the European Parliament in last week’s election. Ironically, it was the same newspaper whose Islamist clientele had held out the infamous placard that read "Now I understand Hitler!"
Osmanlı alışverişi
Osmanlı motifleri, moda ve dekorasyonda tasarımcıların bir süredir gözdesi. Kimi markasının tüm konseptini bunun üzerine kuruyor, kimi bazı ürünlerinde imparatorluğa ait simgesel motifler kullanıyor. Kaftanlar, çarıklar, kavuklar; kına ve nişanların vazgeçilmezleri haline gelmek üzere.
Dördüncü Osmanlı markası Neo Ottoman
Çanta markası Osman, tişört markası Ottoman Empire, hediyelik eşya markası Hiref’den sonra Osmanlı kültürünü modernize eden bir aydınlatma markamız oldu. Neo Ottoman adlı markanın yaratıcısı Deniz Tunç bu alanda bir boşluk olduğunu savunuyor. Bir lambanın üzerinden tespih sarkıyor, diğerinin üzerinde Arapça Allah yazıyor.
You’ve got mail, Your Excellency! (II)
Last week, this column was host to an expatriate reader’s widely "optimistic" comments on Turkey’s new (or, rather, newly formalized) foreign policy czar. Today, there is another expatriate guest, with rather more "cautious" comments on Ahmet Davutoğlu as our new foreign minister.
Neo-Ottomanism
Tomorrow Turkey will mark the anniversary of the May 19, 1919, arrival of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) and his friends in Samsun to start the Turkish War of Independence, a long and painful struggle that succeeded not only in bringing an end to occupation in most parts of the territory defined in the "National borders" resolution of the last Ottoman parliament but also to establish on that shrunk former imperial territory the modern Turkish Republic with a firm commitment to "protect" whatever was left from the empire but also with an outright rejection of the imperial expansionist conquest understanding as expressed in its founding father Atatürk’s "Peace at home, peace abroad" saying.
Welcoming Clinton
Will the visit of new U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Turkey help in opening of a new era in the Turkish-American relations that suffered so much since the March 1, 2003, Parliamentary rejection of an authorization request demanded by the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, government to allow the U.S. open a second front in the war on Saddam Hussein’s Iraq through Turkish territory?
The last sultan!
Did you have a chance to see Bernardo Bertolucci’s "The Last Emperor"? It is a dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
Conflict of civilizations
Letters are pouring in from readers in the United States and Israel. Some are sharing the grief and indignation in the Turkish society that are being reflected to a certain extend to pages of newspapers and their online editions, some are accusing the Turkish media of having a biased pro-Hamas approach to the developments.
An apology...
No... No... I am not joining the campaign of a group of intellectuals who have taken a "collective individual decision" to apologize to the Armenians for the 1915-1917 events in which immense tragedies were lived not only by Armenians but by all ethnic groups of Anatolia. I am not going to engage in a campaign of denial either, with claims that Armenians were killed but so were others and turn a blind soul to the massive human tragedies of that period.