Lou: > Sabri, I apologize for my outburst but don't ever write such an arrogant > post directing me again to ask my wife about is happening in Turkey. I > get my information about Turkey from reading 4 different newspapers each > day, as well as a broad spectrum of scholarly material. Furthermore, we > might have had dinner 5 years ago but subsequent to that you really gave > me a very bad vibe on some listserv--honestly can't remember which one. > Frankly, I don't like your ideas about Middle East politics very much > but try to avoid responding to anything you write in that field.
Dear Lou, Let me start from here with no intention to insult you in any way: > Furthermore, we might have had dinner 5 years ago but subsequent to > that you really gave me a very bad vibe on some listserv--honestly can't > remember which one. It was this list, and the A-List that I used to moderate after Michael Keaney's request when Mark Jones died, and it was when I tried to reconcile your differences with Yoshie that you somehow became hostile to me. I was trying to argue that you and Yoshie did not need to agree, but you could get along somehow. I disagreed with Yoshie 99% of the time in those days when it came to her support of Islamism in the name of anti-imperialism, not that I agreed with you 99% of the time, either, although someone by the name of sartesian or something used to accuse me behind the scenes of being your very good friend/admirer or some such thing in those days. Don't remember who he was, but he sounded very Marxist and revolutionary. I on't have any time for the A-List in these days and stopped reading Mrzine quite sometime ago, so I don't know what Yoshie does anymore. > Frankly, I don't like your ideas about Middle East politics very much > but try to avoid responding to anything you write in that field. In what respects do you not like my Middle East politics, if I may ask? What is my Middle East politics, in other words? Middle East is secondary to me. Michael Perelman visited my Cengelkoy house in Istanbul a few weeks ago, so he knows my house. I care about Cengelkoy, my neighborhood, and I want to live there reasonably well in my retirement. That is where my Middle East politics come from, what ever they are. Any objections? > Sabri, I apologize for my outburst but don't ever write such an arrogant > post directing me again to ask my wife about is happening in Turkey. Well. Once, you wrote at your web site some time ago that I had strong opinions like most other Turks (by the way, although I am from Turkey, I am not Turkish, I am Ottoman) when you quoted something about Turkish music I wrote on Michael's (that is, this) list. And you concluded your thing with this: God love them, meaning, the Turks. What has changed? This is what I fail to understand, not just with you! Best, Sabri _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
