Another paper summarizing the current situation in Turkey: http://www.edu-irep.org/actu.htm#tur RK
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sabri Oncu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PEN-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:36 PM Subject: [PEN-L:21692] WHAT IS HAPPENING IN TURKEY? > Dear All, > > The two messages below should give you some idea regarding the above > question: > > http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg12786.html > http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg12788.html > > I send these not because I am in full agreement with their respective > authors but because I suffer from the exact same pain that they are > suffering from. As you may be able to deduce from these messages, the > pessimism I have been displaying on PEN-L for quite some time now cannot be > just because of my personal, and now definitely, fucked up psychology. > > We are not doing well my friends, we are not doing well!.. > > After about a month in Turkey, I just came back to Berkeley yesterday and am > still jet-lagged. I will write a summary of my observations back there in a > few days. Let me say this before I go to bed though: in Turkey, HOPE is > "mostly" dead, borrowing a concept Billy Cristal introduced in the movie > "The Princess Bride, 1987". > > We, that is, the peoples of Turkey, desparately need work very hard to bring > HOPE back to life, though no body seems doing anything meaningful. > > Best, > > Sabri > >
