Kerem Balci

Articles de cet auteur (4)

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  After Friedman and Clinton : back to the empire

  19 March 2009

  We Turks love to be praised. Americans know this. Americans know that “survivors of an empire” do love to be referred to as the “successors of the empire.”
  Americans praise the British; Americans praise the French; Americans praise the Chinese… Last week two Americans dragged us into the “Ali im Wunderland” once again.
  First, Stratfor CEO George Friedman made us believe that by 2040 Turkey would start appointing governors to the countries established on the former Ottoman lands. Then the US (...)

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  EU, Turkey and the agricultural sector

  9 February 2009

  Turkey entered 2009 with a promise to its European allies that the new year would be a year for Europe. The same promise was made in 2008, and that year was a loss for European Union harmonization efforts. But this time the government seems to be sincere. Within the first few days of the year, the Third National Plan was approved by the president, and days after that, Cabinet established a new EU Ministry and appointed Egemen Bağış as the chief negotiator and the EU minister. Today’s Zaman (...)

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  Ergenekon occupation

  9 September 2008

  Mental occupation is the worst of all occupations. Territorial occupation hits the territories occupied and their inhabitants. Mental occupation hits the interlocutors of all communications created by the occupied mind. Territorial occupation creates its own resistance; the dynamics that will bring its end are part of its own definition. Mental occupation reproduces itself through resistance to it. It uses the energy of its enemies, of the freedom fighters. Territorial occupation usurps (...)

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  Germans are coming, Germans are going

  11 May 2007

  Source : Today’s Zaman, 05-04-2007
  Put yourselves in the place of a German politician supporting Turkey’s EU membership nowadays. A journalist like Hrant Dink is killed in this country; a writer with a Nobel Prize is spending time in court. You would know how hard the task of such a politician is. I met seven such politicians yesterday. In fact my first paragraph was actually the words of one of them, Thomas Kossendey, head of the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group and the (...)