02 - Articles de février 2011
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Reconciled by Mor Gabriel
22 février 2011, parThe struggle between the Government and the High Judiciary has frightened everybody. This won’t be so anymore ; they have reached an agreement now. Established in AD 397 in the district of Midyat there is the Mor Gabriel Monastery (Deyrulumur) of the Syriacs – the calmest and the most oppressed people of the Middle East. The Government and the High Judiciary have decided to get together to “Turkify” the lands which have belonged to Mor Gabriel for centuries.
The whole thing ended with me (...) -
Tunisie, Egypte : quand un vent d’est balaie l’arrogance de l’Occident
21 février 2011, parLe vent d’est l’emporte sur le vent d’ouest. Jusqu’à quand l’Occident désœuvré et crépusculaire, la « communauté internationale » de ceux qui se croient encore les maîtres du monde, continueront-ils à donner des leçons de bonne gestion et de bonne conduite à la terre entière ? N’est-il pas risible de voir quelques intellectuels de service, soldats en déroute du capitalo-parlementarisme qui nous tient lieu de paradis mité, faire don de leur personne aux magnifiques peuples tunisiens et égyptiens, afin (...)
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A tale of two cities: Freaks of Kars and Berlin
18 February 2011, byIf you pass through Berlin anytime soon, you can visit Die Tanzerin (the Dancer) in the sculpture hall of the Neues Museum. Die Tanzerin holds her dancing stance as gracefully as the day she was created by Marg Moll in 1930, although she shows clear signs of aging and is scarred significantly due to the 70 years she spent buried under ground. She is one of 11 sculptures accidentally uncovered during the excavation of a government building in Berlin in 2010.
Die Tanzerin is one of the many (...) -
Un « modèle turc » pour les révolutions arabes ?
17 février 2011, parQuand la plupart des leaders du Moyen-Orient tombent en disgrâce, l’un d’eux renforce sa popularité : c’est le premier ministre turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, au pouvoir depuis 2003, et qui briguera un troisième mandat en juin. Dans un paysage de régimes autoritaires et décrépits, la Turquie montre un visage moderne, propre à séduire les peuples arabes en quête d’un modèle. Ankara s’est projeté sur la région avec un appétit non dissimulé, redevenant, en quelques années, une puissance économique, culturelle et (...)
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Time for Israel to come to its senses
16 February 2011, byThere is no doubt that Bernard Lewis is a prominent historian of the Middle East, including Turkey. His book “The Emergence of Modern Turkey” (1961) is indispensable reading in the field of Turkish politics, and I respect Lewis for that.
What I do not respect in Lewis’ work is his ideas that have inspired Samuel P. Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” thesis that maintains that after the end of the Cold War, the major conflict in the world is between the Christian West and the Muslim East. I do (...) -
TÜSİAD acts faster than Sarkozy
15 février 2011, parTurkish Industry and Business Association, or TÜSİAD, representatives are in France to lobby for business interests just two weeks ahead of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s Turkey visit.
This time the meetings are not in Paris but in another important city, Lyon.
The TÜSİAD team includes members of the Boğaziçi Institute, founded one-and-a-half years ago in Paris.
I think I should better give a reminder about the Boğaziçi Institute.
TÜSİAD decided to set up a platform to include the French (...) -
Turkish TV series take over the throne from Brazil
14 February 2011“Kurtlar Vadisi” (The Valley of Wolves) is among the many Turkish TV series breaking ratings records in regions from the Middle East to the Balkans. Over the past few years, Turkish television series have seen a rapid rise in popularity, partially due to the techniques used in filming them as well as their strong acting ensembles.
Outside of Turkey, the popularity of these series is breaking viewing records in regions from the Middle East to the Balkans. So far, a total of 65 Turkish (...) -
Sharing civil society experience with the Middle East
9 February 2011, byIt was very entertaining and also surprising to listen to some politicians who were drawing parallels between the situation in Turkey and what is happening in Tunisia.
While the Tunisians are taking to the streets for real change and the Egyptians are doing the same to replace Hosni Mubarak, Turkish citizens who want to see real change are taking to the salons and the discussion platforms for a brand new constitution because here in Turkey the period of taking to the streets for “big (...) -
Islamic revolutions in Egypt and Turkey
8 February 2011, byYesterday I quoted John F. Kennedy’s famous words, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable,” and I claimed that if there is a “radical Islamic” takeover in Egypt, the West is to blame for this because they have supported and turned a blind eye to an extremely repressive and brutal regime that has the potential to turn any opposition into a “radical” movement. The course of events has not yet been completed in Egypt.
Political Islam has always been an (...) -
L’Anatolie ottomane par Jean-Paul Roux
7 février 2011, parL’Anatolie ottomane a-t-elle une histoire ? Avec son grand passé gréco-romain, puis chrétien, avec l’éclat de la civilisation seldjoukide aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles, on se serait attendu à ce qu’elle continuât à jouer un grand rôle. Il n’en est rien. C’est à peine si on la mentionne dans les ouvrages consacrés aux Ottomans. Conquis dans la deuxième moitié du XVe siècle par les Ottomans, les Turcs d’Anatolie ne se résignèrent jamais à leur vassalité. Au XIXe siècle, leur poids démographique et les troubles (...)
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