Ergun Hoca, tipik anlamıyla cumhuriyet elitini temsil eden bir aileden geliyordu. 14 Mayıs 1950 seçimlerinden sonra uzun süre CHP rozetiyle dolaştığını anlatırdı bana gülümseyerek. Yanına girince Kürtçe “hewale delal, serçava” (sevgili arkadaşım, baş-göz üstüne) diyerek selamlaşırdık, ben Mamoste “çawani başı” (nasılsın) diye sorardım, o da...
Talih de biraz el vermeli insana; hayat denen bu mebdebe… Beni oğlu gibi gören Halûk Hoca, çok sevdiği(miz) Van’ın Erciş Kazasında 19 Ağustos saat 16: 20 sularında Hakkın rahmetine kavuştu. Danışmanı olarak aynı araçta kendisine eşlik eden ben ve Töre de Hoca ile birlikte komaya...
Boğaziçi Medeniyetinde eskiler, Teşrîn (Ekim-Kasım) eteklerini salıverdiğinden beri kulağımız kirişte derlerdi...
On Oct. 8, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) reopened the beachfront of Varosha (Maraş) to the public after the ghost town had remained closed for 46 years. It is located on the island on the U.N.-controlled "Green Line," also known as the buffer...
What an unforgettable and sorrowful day it was. I was with him in the car when professor Ahmet Haluk Dursun, then Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism, was killed in the crash in the eastern Van province’s Erciş district on Aug. 19, 2019. Dursun was an...
On Aug. 19, 2019, Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Ahmet Haluk Dursun died in a traffic accident in the Erciş district of southeastern Van while in his official vehicle, which I was also in. Even today, Dursun’s name is one of the first things that...
Space, which witnessed a cutthroat struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War period, has now become an arena where companies compete with each other.Most recently, SpaceX, the American spacecraft and rocket maker, launched the world's most powerful rocket, Falcon...
Samuel P. Huntington's famous thesis entitled "The Clash of Civilizations" published in Foreign Affairs magazine in 1993 attracted a great deal of attention – as in George F. Kennan's article titled "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" after World War II and especially during the Cold...
The Tunisian Hayreddin Pasha, a distinguished Ottoman statesmen and intellectual in the late 19th century, was right when he warned the Ottoman Empire of the impending era of multinational corporations. Consequently the empire couldn't adapt its policies and became a victim of economic regression and...
The notions of East and West were first literally described as geographical directions, but today in the social sciences they are mostly used to depict the world's two great different civilizations. There is some simplification here, but it is useful as a starting point. These...