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2006-01-12

21:15:18

Mehmet Ali Agca released

Less than a year after his attemted target, Pope John Paul II died, Mehmet Ali Agca was released in Istanbul today. After serving almost 20 years for attempted murder in Italy, he was pardoned in 2000, and extradited to Turkey to serve 7.5 years prison term for robbery and murder of Turkish journalist. That sentence was cut short for good behaviour.

2005-12-16

23:33:09

Freedom of thought & speech

First day of trial of Turkish novelist, Orhan Pamuk, was a very short one. Judge decided to leave decision under which penal code to prosecute the writer to the higher authority [Minister of Justice], and postponed the trial till 7th of February 2006. Pamuk was accused of insulting his nation by saying: "One million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares talk about it."

2005-12-08

21:00:00

John Lennon 1940 - 1980

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in Sixties, that's his problem.
Love and peace are eternal."
John Lennon

It is hard to write about 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death and to avoid pathos. He would probably mock any pathos even [unavoidable] one about his death. I’m going to try, and if I don’t succeed I hope for forgiveness.

2005-12-06

13:21:27

Turkey in the crosshair of Neo-Crazies

When Turkey’s parliament, obeying to the will of 90-something % of the people, refused to take part and to be a launch pad for the war in Iraq great neo-con Paul Wolfowitz [champion of spreading “democracy and freedom” through the Middle East] said she should be punished. Economy, or to put it better economic punishment was on everybody’s mind [at the time Turkey just started recovery from huge economic crises of February 2001]. That didn’t happen, but still it was clear that soon or later some revenge for disobedience to the empire would follow.

2005-11-29

01:13:39

Was Bush joking?

Is it of any importance?

There is a lot of hypocrisy going on regarding the Bush’s intention to bomb Al-Jazeera. I don’t remember such outcry in the world [especially not among so called liberals, not to speak about Arabs & Muslims] when war criminal Clinton actually intentionally bombed TV Belgrade, killing 16 civilians and wounding scores of others during "humanitarian intervention" of NATO over Yugoslavia back in 1999.

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