http://www.uninvitedguest.net Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:10:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Extended Version of the Paper Presented in the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting in November 2010, New Orleans After 25 years long armed conflict between the Kurdish guerilla, the PKK and the Turkish army in the southeastern provinces of Turkey, in 2008 the liberal Islamic Justice and Development Party (the ... http://www.uninvitedguest.net/index.php/2010/11/22/the-forced-migration-of-the-kurds-in-turkey-the-limits-of-the-liberal-project-concerning-a-solution-for-the-kurdish-question/ In the one and half year that follows its publication our book "Turkiye'de Iktidari Yeniden Dusunmek" ("Rethinking Power in Turkey") was attracted the attention of the prominent libraries from all around the world and Turkey and included to their archives. The university libraries that have our book includes Harvard University, Columbia ... http://www.uninvitedguest.net/index.php/2010/11/21/our-book-rethinking-power-in-turkey-was-included-to-world-libraries/ Photo: Hundreds of Kurdish politicians including mayors of major cities and towns who were elected by majority vote were arrested and handcuffed by the Turkish police in December 2009. Paper Presented in the American Anthropological Association's Annual Meeting in December 2009, Philadelphia During the civil war in Turkey’s eastern and southeastern provinces ... http://www.uninvitedguest.net/index.php/2010/02/26/the-trans-formation-of-the-kurdish-%e2%80%98identity%e2%80%99-in-the-zone-of-indistinction-between-the-citizen-and-the-terrorist/ 1) Introduction This paper aims to critically analyze the ways in which liberal and humanitarian civil society and NGO’s in Turkey perceive, approach, and develop policy proposals about the problem concerning the internally displaced Kurdish populations. By focusing on the liberal policy proposals concerning the problems of internally displaced people, ... http://www.uninvitedguest.net/index.php/2009/11/24/subjecting-the-kurds-to-the-order-of-liberal-multicultural-rights-what-the-tesev%e2%80%99s-study-on-the-forced-migration-does-not-say-the-limits-of-the-liberal-project-concerning-a-solution-in/ “Analar milyonlarca Mehmetçik doğurabilir ama bir Skorsky helikopter doğuramaz…” “Turkish mothers can give birth to millions of Mehmetciks (Turkish soldiers), yet they cannot give birth to a Skorsky helicopter…” (A Turkish military commander’s response to his injured soldiers, who asked for a Skorsky helicopter to carry them immediately to the hospital) Introduction: In ... http://www.uninvitedguest.net/index.php/2009/06/18/when-the-survival-of-the-state-is-at-stake-formations-of-the-sovereign-image-of-the-state-in-turkey-turkish-states-approach-to-its-own-soldiers/ Turkiye’de Iktidari Yeniden Dusunmek (Rethinking Power in Turkey) is a collective work of Professors and Ph. D. students, who study on the reconfiguration and transformation of power relations in Turkey especially after the 1980 military coup. The book is the first and unique analysis of power relations in Turkey through ... http://www.uninvitedguest.net/index.php/2009/03/24/our-book-rethinking-power-in-turkey-was-released-by-varlik-publishg-house/ The Paper Presented in the American Anthropological Association's Annual Meeting in 2008 in San Francisco. 1 - The Power of Death over Life 1.1 - The Life of Ikbal Yasar’s Dead Body On 22nd of March, 2008, Ikbal Yasar, a 20 year old Kurdish man was killed by the Turkish police in Yuksekova ... http://www.uninvitedguest.net/index.php/2009/03/03/armed-clashin-turkey-and-the-power-of-kurdish-rebels%e2%80%99-dead-bodies-over-life/ in the middle of the street, dusty girls played a game. Mumtaz listened to their folk song: “Open the gate, toll keeper, toll keeper How much will you cough up to pass on through?” The girls were hale and hearty, but their clothes were in tatters. In a neighborhood where Hekimoglu Ali ... http://www.uninvitedguest.net/index.php/2009/02/20/the-turk-in-the-mirror-ahmet-hamdi-tanpinar%e2%80%99s-huzur-and-the-search-for-the-%e2%80%98modern%e2%80%99-and-%e2%80%98unique%e2%80%99-turkish-subjectivity/ Two days ago, the same day we discussed violence, the ineffable Condoleezza Rice, a US official, declared that what was happening in Gaza was the Palestinians' fault, due to their violent nature. The underground rivers that crisscross the world can change their geography, but they sing the same song. And the one ... http://www.uninvitedguest.net/index.php/2009/01/10/of-sowing-and-harvests-subcomandante-marcos-speech-on-gaza/ Opposition leader Baykal criticizes TRT6, saying "the state shall remain blind to ethnic identities". Professor Cankaya reacts: "Public TV should benefit all citizens." Reactions from Kurdish activists divided, suggesting lack of legal base shows government's insincerety. (Source) Bia news center - İstanbul Scholars and activists welcome the new Kurdish channel in state ... http://www.uninvitedguest.net/index.php/2009/01/10/kurdish-broadcast-in-public-tv-stirs-controversy/