Posts Tagged ‘Tayyip Erdogan’
virtual protest march on google maps
January 26th, 2010 by lifeproof
I have written an article on the dispute between Google and China for a Turkish newspaper the last week. I stated that The Great Firewall of China was not much different than the firewall that the Turkish conservative government has built around us. When I first returned to Turkey this summer after spending two years [...]
Tags: AKP, ban on YouTube, bobiler.org, China, Google, Google Docs, google maps, Istanbul, New York, New York City, ReadWriteWeb, Tayyip Erdogan, The Great Firewall of China, Turkey, virtual protest, virtual protest march, YouTube
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PinPoint
Faces of Power
December 7th, 2009 by lifeproof
Remember my Globureaucracy post photographed by
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Berlusconi, Chávez, Erdogan, Globureaucracy, Hugo Chávez, Israel, Jacob Zuma, Jalal Talabani, Jan Bannings, Kofi Annan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Michèle Montas, Muammar Qaddafi, My Modern Met, Netanyahu, Obama, Photography, Platon, politics, Qaddafi, Silvio Berlusconi, Talabani, Tayyip Erdogan, The New Yorker, The Portraits of Power, the UN, United Nations, world leaders, Zuma
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PhotoMorphosis
Scientism: the Religion of 20th Century
November 27th, 2009 by lifeproof
In 2007, Terry Eagleton came to Istanbul as a part of a conversation series that was titled “Meetings at the Center of the World.” Each conversation paired a Turkish and an international writer, thinker, expert, scholar in his/her field. Terry Eagleton was paired with renowned Turkish Sociologist, Hüsamettin Arslan, whose PhD dissertation was titled “Epistemic [...]
Tags: 20th century, advertising, Genetically Modified Foods, Genetically Modified Organisms, GMF, GMO, H1N1, H1N1 flu, H1N1 flu vaccine, Hassan-i Sabbah, Hüsamettin Arslan, Ideology and Criticism, marketing, Meetings at the Center of the Globe, propaganda, religion, Scientism, Scientology, Tayyip Erdogan, Terry Eagleton
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
Tayyip ♥ Mahmoud
October 28th, 2009 by lifeproof
The Guardian was very surprised to hear from Turkish PM, Tayyip Erdogan to say that Iran (Mahmoud Ahmedinejad) is a friend of Turkey. It is quite surprising for me to see that they are surprised at this statement. This friendship was obvious, inevitable–and to be fair: quite logical. I have been saying continuously, even before [...]
Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Democratic initiative, Iran, Israel, Kurdish, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Mesopotamia, Russia, Syria, Tayyip Erdogan, Tehran, the East, the EU, The Guardian, the West, Turkey
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles