Posts Tagged ‘the Middle East’
refugees of 2009
December 31st, 2009 by lifeproof
We, the refugees of 2009, seek peace and ataraxia in 2010. Yet, that’s unlikely to happen in 2010. Skip the forthcoming year and try your chance again in 2011 or maybe the renowned 2012. This year brought us economic crisis, the inevitability of Global Warming, more crimes against humanity, an African-American president, Qaddafi as a [...]
Tags: 2010, change, climate change, Heraclitus, new year, perception, perception management, re-transformation of global geopolitics, review of 2009, the Greater Middle East Project, the Middle East
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
Somniloquy: Genocide before the Consciousness of the Genocide
September 21st, 2009 by lifeproof
The Armenian Genocide–or from the other side: “Forced Emigration of Armenians” (Ermeni Tehciri)–has been a long debate and struggle from both sides of the conflict, since the Holocaust! There is a significant demand from Turkey to acknowledge it as genocide and reconcile with its (as they are the successors of the Ottoman Empire’s debts, losses [...]
Tags: Armenian diaspora, Armenian Genocide, Balkans, Capitalism, Caucasus, consciousness, Crete, First World War, genocide, Holocaust, Izmir, Karl Marx, Language and the Symbolic Power, Marxism, Pierre Bourdieu, pre-Capitalist, the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, Wilson's Fourteen Principles, Woodrow Wilson, World War 1, WWI
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PoliTickles
The Kurdish Solution
August 28th, 2009 by lifeproof
Turkey, the country, has left everything aside and is debating and arguing on if and how the Kurdish minority problem may be solved for a month or so. The Kurdish problem has been a long standing problem, which has also been an issue in the last terms of the Ottoman Empire. It has been ignored [...]
Tags: Europe, European Union, Kurdish initiative, Kurdish solution, Kurdistan, Nabucco, Nabucco pipeline, natural gas, oil, Ottoman Empire, Russia, the Middle East, Turkey, Turkish Republic
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Putin in Turkey
August 6th, 2009 by lifeproof
Putin will not be able to say that anymore Today Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in Turkey to make connections on various topics among which the energy issue seems to be the most important. It is not very interesting to see Putin come to Turkey today, after Turkey and a number of other countries–and [...]
Tags: Armenia, Europe, European Union, Kurdistan, Nabucco, NATO, natural gas, petrol, PKK, Silvio Berlusconi, the Middle East, Turkey, Vladimir Putin
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