<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515422969360515793</id><updated>2011-09-10T04:44:44.702-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Çankaya Hill</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Luis Cesme</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515422969360515793.post-1472758106935867100</id><published>2007-08-29T03:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-29T03:48:20.006-07:00</updated><title type='text'>El türban de Hayrunissa Gül</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;Desde el día en que se hizo oficial la candidatura del entonces ministro de exteriores turco, Abdullah Gül, a la presidencia de la República de Turquía por el partido AKP (Partido Justicia y Desarrollo, conservador), han sido muy pocas las ocasiones en que su esposa Hayrunissa no ha desviado las miradas de todo el mundo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;De hecho, toda vez que se han cumplido los pronósticos y Abdullah Gül ha sido elegido Presidente, las cámaras y los bolígrafos han vuelto una vez más a apuntar hacia el &lt;i style=""&gt;türban&lt;/i&gt; que cubre la cabeza de Hayrunissa Gül, como si de él dependiera el futuro de la república. Y hasta cierto punto así es.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;En un estado laico de mayoría musulmana como Turquía, Hayrunissa Gül personifica el debate social y político en torno al lugar que debe ocupar la religión. Un debate no sólo necesario, sino también abiertamente inevitable para un estado inmerso en un momento de gran dinamismo económico, institucional, político, social… &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;Pero al igual que en España, donde seguimos a vueltas con la asignatura de religión, o en Francia donde a la polémica por el crucifijo en las escuelas públicas le siguió el debate por el velo utilizado por algunas musulmanas, las cuestiones que mezclan derechos a la libertad religiosa, a la libertad de expresión, a la igualdad, con principios como la aconfesionalidad del estado levantan grandes controversias, ayudados por los discursos populistas que alimentan la superstición o apelan al miedo al fanatismo. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Así, en este país todavía se recuerdan con recelo los viejos discursos fundamentalistas del actual Primer Ministro Erdogan, y las reformas que intentó impulsar (entre ellas, tipificar el adulterio como delito). Mientras el Estado Mayor del ejército, en funciones de garante del secularismo, sigue poniendo a prueba los cimientos de la democracia con pequeños golpes virtuales, servidos a través de escritos publicados en su página web.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;Cuando el acceso del islamista moderado Abdullah Gül a la presidencia de la República deje de ser noticia, el &lt;i style=""&gt;türban&lt;/i&gt; de Hayrunissa lo seguirá siendo. Y será así porque representa un debate que debe ser resuelto por la sociedad turca día a día, y no mediante fórmulas absolutas dictadas ni desde las mezquitas, ni desde los cuarteles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Estoy seguro de que el &lt;i style=""&gt;türban&lt;/i&gt; de Hayrunissa Gül llegará a ser familiar para todo el mundo en los próximos años. Y si no, al tiempo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8515422969360515793-1472758106935867100?l=cankayahill.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/feeds/1472758106935867100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8515422969360515793&amp;postID=1472758106935867100&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/1472758106935867100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/1472758106935867100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/2007/08/el-trban-de-hayrunissa-gl.html' title='El türban de Hayrunissa Gül'/><author><name>Luis Cesme</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515422969360515793.post-8576102270291930611</id><published>2007-08-29T03:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-29T03:50:11.294-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gana Turquía, gana Europa</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;Tras leer el artículo de la señora Y. Shawki del pasado martes 24/7, me gustaría contraponer mi propia experiencia de la realidad de Turquía al hilo de la celebración de las elecciones generales del pasado 22/7.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;En primer lugar, creo que es oportuno romper una&lt;br /&gt;lanza a favor de la altura democrática demostrada por la sociedad turca. Frente a quienes auguraban un giro hacia las formas más duras de la tradición golpista (1960, 1971, 1980, 1997), fruto de la polarización social entre los sectores laico e islamista y el recrudecimiento de los enfrentamientos con el PKK, se ha demostrado que la sociedad turca ha apostado decididamente por la continuidad de las instituciones democráticas.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;En segundo lugar considero que identificar, como hace la articulista, los resultados electorales del pasado 22/7 con un incremento en el sentimiento de rechazo hacia la Unión Europea aunque lícito, debe ser matizado. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;Es lícito porque el creciente rechazo de la UE es una realidad palpable en Turquía. Tras las expectativas creadas al iniciarse el proceso de negociación para la adhesión a la UE, cada día más turcos ven con escepticismo el paulatino sometimiento al &lt;i style=""&gt;acervo comunitario&lt;/i&gt;, dada la ambigüedad manifiesta con que los líderes de &lt;st1:personname productid="la Uni￳n" st="on"&gt;la Unión&lt;/st1:personname&gt; abordan la posible adhesión de Turquía. Debe ser matizado, sin embargo, porque frente al compromiso europeísta del AKP (Partido Justicia y Desarrollo), los partidos que han articulado este creciente euro-escepticismo se hallan de nuevo en la oposición parlamentaria, en los grupos de carácter más nacionalista y rupturista: el CHP (Partido Republicano del Pueblo) y el MHP (Partido Nacionalista del Pueblo).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;Por otra parte, pensar que tras las elecciones de 22/7 Turquía ha sucumbido a los embates del Islam, no es más que un pensamiento tópico. Turquía no ha sucumbido al Islam, sencillamente porque la sociedad turca ha sido eminentemente musulmana desde el día que se proclamó la República. Hoy en día el 99% de la población es musulmana, más, menos, o nada practicante. Pero de la misma manera que 75 años de &lt;i style=""&gt;kemalismo&lt;/i&gt; no consiguieron vaciar las mezquitas de Mardin, Konya o los barrios aluviales de Estambul, las victorias electorales del islamista AKP no han evitado que a las mezquitas de Ankara, Izmir o Antalya continúe sin acercarse &lt;i style=""&gt;ni el tat&lt;/i&gt;o.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;Y ante el miedo a ese “&lt;i style=""&gt;velo que se extiende como una plaga&lt;/i&gt;” no olvidemos que desde 1997 en Turquía está vetado el velo en las instituciones públicas, universidades incluidas, y que no han sido los partidos laicos sino el gobierno del AKP el que ha endurecido leyes y penas por delitos de violación, y el que se ha decidido a actuar, por fin, contra las redes que encubren los deplorables y mal-llamados “&lt;i style=""&gt;crímenes de honor&lt;/i&gt;”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;90 años después de que Atatürk diese vida a la República de Turquía, felicitémonos hoy porque sus instituciones democráticas, tantas veces apaleadas, sean por fin capaces de pervivir a los cambios sociales y políticos, y porque las diferencias que nos separan sean cada vez más pequeñas, frente a los valores que compartimos. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  lang="ES" &gt;Turquía y la UE estamos destinados a cruzar nuestros caminos. Aportemos nuestro granito de arena para que nuestras sociedades abandonen poco a poco los tópicos, y con ellos los recelos que nos separan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Publicado en La Voz de Galicia, Cartas al Director. 31/07/2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;"  lang="ES" &gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8515422969360515793-8576102270291930611?l=cankayahill.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/feeds/8576102270291930611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8515422969360515793&amp;postID=8576102270291930611&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/8576102270291930611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/8576102270291930611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/2007/08/gana-turqua-gana-europa.html' title='Gana Turquía, gana Europa'/><author><name>Luis Cesme</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515422969360515793.post-1243407495268332207</id><published>2007-05-31T07:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-31T08:25:06.088-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Conflict Scalation Study case</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;According to the news these past days, a US jet entered Turkey's air space this week. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Apparently, the US did not informed their Turkish counterpart on the issue for some three to four hours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;At the same time that its tanks line up in the south-eastern border, Ankara rejects the US violation of Turkey's sovereign territory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;And to add up to the situation, suspicions that the US will hand security command in northern Iraq to peshmergas have caused big controversy in the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Are US and Turkey, allies for 50 years, strategic partners in NATO, undergoing low profile eye-poking? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Obviously yes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;But as in any other case, we presume the pinching in this case has been meticulously calculated  in order to not upset completely the other side. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;What we cannot yet see the light at the end of the tunnel... are we soon to touch ground?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt; ... how long are American-Turkish relations going to keep deteriorating?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Do you have the answers?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8515422969360515793-1243407495268332207?l=cankayahill.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/feeds/1243407495268332207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8515422969360515793&amp;postID=1243407495268332207&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/1243407495268332207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/1243407495268332207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/2007/05/conflict-scalation-study-case.html' title='Conflict Scalation Study case'/><author><name>Luis Cesme</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515422969360515793.post-6975609383271173955</id><published>2007-05-25T05:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T05:47:14.999-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tuesday pictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AF7SlrZuVZ4/Rlbae8och-I/AAAAAAAAABk/y1LXCbG0yP0/s1600-h/ulusblast04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AF7SlrZuVZ4/Rlbae8och-I/AAAAAAAAABk/y1LXCbG0yP0/s320/ulusblast04.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068478655858771938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AF7SlrZuVZ4/RlbaV8och9I/AAAAAAAAABc/3Lfr_5fKvLU/s1600-h/ulusblast03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AF7SlrZuVZ4/RlbaV8och9I/AAAAAAAAABc/3Lfr_5fKvLU/s320/ulusblast03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068478501239949266" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AF7SlrZuVZ4/RlbaE8och7I/AAAAAAAAABM/OJhwViQrLoY/s1600-h/ulusblast02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AF7SlrZuVZ4/RlbaE8och7I/AAAAAAAAABM/OJhwViQrLoY/s320/ulusblast02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068478209182173106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8515422969360515793-6975609383271173955?l=cankayahill.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/feeds/6975609383271173955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8515422969360515793&amp;postID=6975609383271173955&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/6975609383271173955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/6975609383271173955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/2007/05/tuesday-pictures.html' title='Tuesday pictures'/><author><name>Luis Cesme</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AF7SlrZuVZ4/Rlbae8och-I/AAAAAAAAABk/y1LXCbG0yP0/s72-c/ulusblast04.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515422969360515793.post-1963942320561585769</id><published>2007-05-22T11:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T12:59:39.595-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The After-blast</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;22.00, Ankara.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;From the top of Çankaya Hill the night is bright. Lit up with the millions of bulbs that give this city some kind of appeal it lacks from 6.00 to 21.00, the air in Çankaya is fresh and the view of the city amazing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just a few miles away from here, down Cinnah Caddesi, through Atatürk Bulvari and Kizilay, all the way to Ulus, the air becomes dry, dense, dirty... and the view turns into a tragic display of broken glass and torn iron.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People are still trying to get a grip on what went wrong today in Ulus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just turn on your TV and this is what you'll see: 5 people dead, 4 turks and 1 pakistani. 60 injured, 3 of whom in very serious condition, spread through several hospitals around the capital.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nobody is in custody yet, but all the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;big wigs have already been there, all the theories have been exposed, and all the possible explanations considered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;Yet nothing is sure and nobody is comfortable talking about what went wrong today in Ulus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;And that is something that has kept us wondering for a long time. It has been a tragic time for Turkey, it has been a horrible situation for all of us who live in this country, and hundreds of people have literally gone through hell this evening.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And still, it is hard to find someone really willing to talk about it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;  About what went wrong today in Ulus...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What went wrong?! What is going on?!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8515422969360515793-1963942320561585769?l=cankayahill.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/feeds/1963942320561585769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8515422969360515793&amp;postID=1963942320561585769&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/1963942320561585769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/1963942320561585769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/2007/05/2200-after-blast.html' title='The After-blast'/><author><name>Luis Cesme</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515422969360515793.post-2622906203574131277</id><published>2007-05-22T10:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-22T12:35:15.229-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blast in Ulus</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;So just one week after starting this blog, when things looked a lot calmed down, and i am sure not many people were expecting to hear about a bomb blast in the heart of Turkey's capital, it happened.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;I wasn´t expecting it. I could not imagine I would hear about a bomb in a bus stop in the middle of the populous, working class Ulus district.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;As we were listening to the news,we all hoped it was just gas leak or some kind of tragic accident. But police sources have stated that remains of explossive have been found near a bus stop, of a sort called A 40.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" &gt;So far 6 people have been declared dead and more than 50 people have been reported injured.&lt;br /&gt;Of course, figures are expected to keep changing along the evening. Hopefully they will not increase.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8515422969360515793-2622906203574131277?l=cankayahill.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/feeds/2622906203574131277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8515422969360515793&amp;postID=2622906203574131277&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/2622906203574131277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/2622906203574131277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/2007/05/blast-in-ulus.html' title='Blast in Ulus'/><author><name>Luis Cesme</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8515422969360515793.post-4459208700893027664</id><published>2007-05-14T05:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-05-14T06:45:51.784-07:00</updated><title type='text'>From the Hills of Ankara</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Today we celebrate the birth of a blog that will be dedicated to Turkey, their politics and their society. Time will prove if we are right to celebrate or not, but we are a bunch of optimistic fellows here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;We intend to provide easy access and debate on news and topics from the insiders' point of view, as well as a frame on the perceptions the rest of the world holds about Turkey.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our posts will be at least weekly. Although the periodicity may vary as long as we have to earn a living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Since we are trying to create a participative debate forum we will try to keep our post entries as unbiased as humanly possible. However, even renowned publications have their own editorial guidelines and so do we. Try to forgive us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8515422969360515793-4459208700893027664?l=cankayahill.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/4459208700893027664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8515422969360515793/posts/default/4459208700893027664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cankayahill.blogspot.com/2007/05/14052007-doum-gnn-kutlu-olsun.html' title='From the Hills of Ankara'/><author><name>Luis Cesme</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
