The Burning Girl!

...this is who I want to be: the Burning Girl, not burdened by the fetish of all those things I have created, and had to leave behind. I am a nomad, I have no history to turn back to...

Tilsim was my cat, her name means 'magic'. I still miss her. She was all black with penetrating green eyes, a real Istanbul lady. I promised I will give her name to my coffee shop. So this is it.

I read: Sirens of Titan, Remembering Jack, A Man Without a Country, Player Piano
I am reading: Hemingway: Complete Short Stories, Slaughterhouse Five, The Second Sex
The last three movies I watched: Man From Earth, Fur, Ocean 13
What I have done this year that I haven't done before: Be a mom
A day absolutely ordinaire: Latte at a coffee shop and daily news from the Washington Post (hm this hasn't changed :))
Wbat is in: Buying designer outfits at a discount

Who: Leman
What I do from dusk till dawn: Be a mom
My pet ghost: Selmin
My source of inspiration:Lalita
I live: in a cozy town home with an Italian garden with my beautiful baby girl Lara and our pet Kotmish
I learned: "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." -George Bernard Shaw

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Excerpt from an interview with Turkish journalist Can Dundar:

Do you believe Kemalism is compatible with Turkey’s EU aspirations and democratisation?

A. It depends what you understand by Kemalism. For me there is no such thing as Kemalism. Mustafa Kemal did not leave us Kemalism before he died. I am a researcher of Mustafa Kemal, I like reading about Mustafa Kemal but from what I read he didn’t leave a legacy called Kemalism. This is merely people’s interpretation, which was produced after he died. His biggest legacy however was positivism. But still, 1930s World and the World of today is very different. If you try to take Kemalism as an ideology from 1930s and apply it today it will not work. In fact to do so is an insult to Turkey. Therefore I don’t believe Mustafa Kemal was a Kemalist.

Read the entire interview here:

http://thecypriotvoice.blogspot.com/2008/02/can-dundar-there-is-no-such-thing-as.html

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1 Comments:

At 5:11 PM, Selmin said...: I missed blogging! I missed its small scale intimacy. Will try to get back to my old patterns starting from today and adopt a few new ones along the way :-)