December 2010
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Piotr Zalewski Do Ask, Must Tell [DECEMBER 4, 2010]
Turkey’s military doesn’t just discriminate against gays — it humiliates them.
ISTANBUL — As the United States considers repealing the ban on gays serving in the military, they might want to consider consulting their allies in NATO with whom they serve in Afghanistan and Iraq. The vast majority of the organization’s...
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Today’s Zaman Turkey ranks 95th out of 162 nations on list of informal economies [2010-12-28]
Turkey has been ranked 95th in the world in terms of countries with unregistered economies, with an informal economy that accounts for 31.6 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP).
As part of World Bank-funded research on informal economies around the world, researchers focused on the...
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Turkey Becomes 15th Biggest Economy in the World in National Income [Thursday, 25 November 2010]
Turkey, which was earlier listed as the 16th biggest economy in the world in terms of size of national income, has revised its position in the ranking as the 15th, due to a correction made by the...
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humangoods.net Going Native: Modern sex tourism and the post-colonial gaze [JUNE 25, 2010 8:20 AM]
Deep in our psyches, men harbor a vision of beautiful, tropical island women, adoring and submissive. Could this paradise still exist?
-Henry Makow, A Long Way to Go for a Date
In recent years, there has been increased visibility of Western tourists embarking on sex tours to non-Western...
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The Technium The Choice of Cities [July 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM]
Cities are technological artifacts, the largest technology we make. Their impact is out of proportion to the number of humans living in them. As the chart above shows, the percentage of humans living in cities averaged about one or two percent for most of recorded history. (The chart’s Y axis is a logarithmic scale of...
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M. Lutfullah Karaman TUNALI HILMI: AN OUTSTANDING FIGURE IN THE PROCESS OF IDEOLOGICAL CHANGE FROM OTTOMANISM TO TURKISM [July 1997, Volume 1, No. 2]
In modern Turkish history, particularly toward the nineteenth century’s end, quite a large number of Ottoman intellectuals, worried about the disintegration of their Empire, by and large followed the policy of “Ottomanism”. This...
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Susanne Fowler Art Walk Turns Into Street Fight in Istanbul [November 10, 2010]
ISTANBUL — When what had been a gentrifying neighborhood’s most successful art walk devolved into a bloody street fight, it raised embarrassing questions for a city celebrating its status as a 2010 European Capital of Culture.
Here in the Tophane neighborhood of the central Beyoglu district of Istanbul, new...
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Martin Kettle Disgracefully, Turkey’s EU bid is going nowhere soon [Thursday 28 October 2010 20.30 BST]
Seen from Turkey, the squabble about the EU budget seems like fiddling while Brussels burns. In the Turkish perspective, the large issues for Europe should not be the latest carve-up of the budgetary cake, or the palace power struggle between the European parliament and the member...
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Cengiz Çandar Redefining Turkey’s Political Center [Journal of Democracy - Volume 10, Number 4, October 1999, pp. 129-141]
In Turkey, things are not always what they seem. On 18 April 1999, the country held competitive elections for its 550-member unicameral parliament, the Grand National Assembly. It was the thirteenth consecutive open election that Turkey has held since 1946....
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İPEK EMEKSİZ No e-mail brides here, says Russian NGO in Turkey [Thursday, November 11, 2010]
Much to the chagrin of a Russian language association, Turkish men frequently contact the group in search of a bride, according to the head of the association.
“These men are wasting our time,” said Anjelika Anzhela, head of the Alanya Russian Language Speakers Association, or ARDİD, in southern Turkey....