An
answer to a question
from Alan Sokal
SOKAL:
"One
thing that confused me on your Web site was the classification
of Newton, Hume and Einstein as "irrationalism". Are
you perhaps using that word in a different sense than the
way I understand it?"
...
YARDIMLI: Here is a both rational and emotional answer.
In order to keep it short, I will not elaborate and in many
places omit the genealogy of ideas....
The
PKK Question -
The
Hatred in Middle East and Europe
The
new old. The frozen development, or absolute resistance to
history: Kurdish settlement in Harran in southeast Türkiye.
Democracy—the Will of people to govern itself, the rule of
Law as the concrete assertion of freedom—never took root in
the Kurdish feudal regions. Kurds knew only the order given
by their landlords to vote for the clan leader’s party. The
landlords owned both the land and the people living on it.
A
Logical Analysis Regarding the Balkans
in
the Light of an Article by Noam Chomsky

Before the commencement of the NATO aerial bombardment over
Yugoslavia, more than 2000 people had been killed and hundreds
of thousands forced to leave their homes. Mr. Chomsky opposed
to the bombardment which was undertaken to prevent the possible
full scale mass destruction. Not because he had a better idea.
He found it outright illegal. He proposed simply to DO NOTHING
to stop it on the pretext of respecting and strengthening
the international law, while the latter, as it was epitomized
by the Security Council, would exactly have dictated the same:
DO NOTHING, just as it DID NOTHING in the case of Bosnia before.
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