r16
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remember the Taksim riots , the Gezi events that started with removal of some trees ? Numbers of trees being debateable between 3 and 20 ? Which really scared the biggies among the newly elites and almost the entire state establishment as a precursor of the Great Alevi Uprising ? Which led to widespread demonstrations and each of the 5 or 6 people who died was an Alevi though among the thousands of the wounded one way or the other , there are enough numbers of Sunnis to make this entire event a non-secterian explosion ; which still has aftershocks of its own with small scale demonstrations taking place every weekend ?
the explosion thing seemed real enough to the decision makers considering the week before it really got going they had named the 3rd bridge across the Bosphorus as Yavuz , the Ottoman Sultan that increased the size of the country 250% or something in 8 years . A person whom the Alevis tend to identify as an oppressor , with German institutions working behind the scenes to increase the number of people who call the troubles in his reign as a genocide . There is a certain phrase in Turkish where you invoke somebody else's mother , say when that somebody steps on your foot ; delivered with a smile it can also be a joke or mockery laced with contempt . There are undoubtedly people who felt it that way when the ever smiling President announced the name and explained it that he and the cabinet members had decided the name in 5 minutes , right there on the field of ceremony ; in that he was almost invoking their mothers , just he wasn't saying but thinking ...
this bridge is being constructed by a South Korean company , at least you would expect solid work in engineering , consideration , preparation and stuff ? Turns out all those detailed preliminary work of years has been laced with mistakes . As soon as the construction began , it was discovered the selected route conflicted with migration paths of birds . An immediate stop , with a new route . It's only 245 000 trees cut down . Media suggests everybody to shut up , those who don't like the bridge shouldn't travel on it . No comment on the timetable when the cleared areas will be utilized with spectacular villas with immediate access to the bridge , easing traffic for those who could afford to buy them . In another spectacle right in my city , a cablecar is to be built for "Green" access to the skiing resort up the mountain , the environmentalists all applaud the wise choice , the Mayor appears on National TVs with an helicopter in the background lifting pylons for the construction , since helicopters will save trees since they fly in the air instead of driven on a road as the trucks would need if there wasn't helilift . Great , just great . Right on the same week , walkers-in-the-woods-as-sport discover helicopters are not flying and there is the road with almost 4000 trees felled .
there is this construction boom which has to go to keep the economy from imploding ; money has to be saved whenever applicable . They haven't yet resorted to forcibly taking over property considered poorly constructed to resist earthquakes for new projects . Currently only some Roman citizens - the official term for Gypsies- complain that they were cheated out of their plots and houses and the compensation as the new houses do not cover what they lost . Such troubles might be more common in the future , that's why any land of any kind is eagerly accepted at the slightest chance . Saying such stuff in Turkey makes you an enemy of Democracy within 10 minutes of a discussion . Since the Goverment is returning Honour to those wronged by the coup plotters and stuff , got to be an enemy of higher ideals of mankind with any opposition ; and there is to be a museum on the island where the trials against the victims of the 1960 murderness , aptly named for Democracy . It started reasonably enough , small island with small pier , visitors might get stuck in storm in small ships , hence a couple of bungalows to weather the weather . Currently it's permitted to have a 65% rate ; which means you could have all sorts of things -mall included- on 65 000 squaremeters of a 100 000 squaremeter island . The descendants of some those who were tried in that abomination of courts have already complained . Tourism experts are dumbfounded , asking where the market is to fill the floorspace . Good thing that they are not aware that those who asked info on the project apparently include one Arabian dude who also sells women , East Europeans mostly . Isle of Love , anyone ?
the work on the PM's mosque fit for Sultans has also started . Which has been mentioned a couple of times in CFC as a dangerous thing to do , with the PM himself declaring it was supposed to have 7 minarets in the beginning . The same number with the Kabe in Mekke , though now probably irrelevant with the space age treatment Saudis are to give to the environs of the "House of God" , the Makkah 2020 with its 63 hotel towers ringing the site . Culled down to 6 minarets , the Istanbul project now matches the Sultanahmet but ı , for starters , don't think it's fit for a PM of this Republic to get into a contest with the Ottomans , whose work lasted 6 centuries and more . While it's quite possible we won't survive 2014 . People who approach the city from Marmara will be stunned by the scene of some skyscraper rising behind the mosques of Ottomans , done against the court orders over some 5 years and yet see there is nothing similar behind the one of the PM , and there might be enemies of Democracy whispering to attentive ears that the guy who built the skyscraper behind Ottomans' turns out to be the owner of the house the PM rents in Istanbul . Does it really fall to me to remind that the political Right in Turkey likes the Ottomans and it might hurt when we actually need National Unity ? For real , not as a ploy to get votes for A-K-P ...
the explosion thing seemed real enough to the decision makers considering the week before it really got going they had named the 3rd bridge across the Bosphorus as Yavuz , the Ottoman Sultan that increased the size of the country 250% or something in 8 years . A person whom the Alevis tend to identify as an oppressor , with German institutions working behind the scenes to increase the number of people who call the troubles in his reign as a genocide . There is a certain phrase in Turkish where you invoke somebody else's mother , say when that somebody steps on your foot ; delivered with a smile it can also be a joke or mockery laced with contempt . There are undoubtedly people who felt it that way when the ever smiling President announced the name and explained it that he and the cabinet members had decided the name in 5 minutes , right there on the field of ceremony ; in that he was almost invoking their mothers , just he wasn't saying but thinking ...
this bridge is being constructed by a South Korean company , at least you would expect solid work in engineering , consideration , preparation and stuff ? Turns out all those detailed preliminary work of years has been laced with mistakes . As soon as the construction began , it was discovered the selected route conflicted with migration paths of birds . An immediate stop , with a new route . It's only 245 000 trees cut down . Media suggests everybody to shut up , those who don't like the bridge shouldn't travel on it . No comment on the timetable when the cleared areas will be utilized with spectacular villas with immediate access to the bridge , easing traffic for those who could afford to buy them . In another spectacle right in my city , a cablecar is to be built for "Green" access to the skiing resort up the mountain , the environmentalists all applaud the wise choice , the Mayor appears on National TVs with an helicopter in the background lifting pylons for the construction , since helicopters will save trees since they fly in the air instead of driven on a road as the trucks would need if there wasn't helilift . Great , just great . Right on the same week , walkers-in-the-woods-as-sport discover helicopters are not flying and there is the road with almost 4000 trees felled .
there is this construction boom which has to go to keep the economy from imploding ; money has to be saved whenever applicable . They haven't yet resorted to forcibly taking over property considered poorly constructed to resist earthquakes for new projects . Currently only some Roman citizens - the official term for Gypsies- complain that they were cheated out of their plots and houses and the compensation as the new houses do not cover what they lost . Such troubles might be more common in the future , that's why any land of any kind is eagerly accepted at the slightest chance . Saying such stuff in Turkey makes you an enemy of Democracy within 10 minutes of a discussion . Since the Goverment is returning Honour to those wronged by the coup plotters and stuff , got to be an enemy of higher ideals of mankind with any opposition ; and there is to be a museum on the island where the trials against the victims of the 1960 murderness , aptly named for Democracy . It started reasonably enough , small island with small pier , visitors might get stuck in storm in small ships , hence a couple of bungalows to weather the weather . Currently it's permitted to have a 65% rate ; which means you could have all sorts of things -mall included- on 65 000 squaremeters of a 100 000 squaremeter island . The descendants of some those who were tried in that abomination of courts have already complained . Tourism experts are dumbfounded , asking where the market is to fill the floorspace . Good thing that they are not aware that those who asked info on the project apparently include one Arabian dude who also sells women , East Europeans mostly . Isle of Love , anyone ?
the work on the PM's mosque fit for Sultans has also started . Which has been mentioned a couple of times in CFC as a dangerous thing to do , with the PM himself declaring it was supposed to have 7 minarets in the beginning . The same number with the Kabe in Mekke , though now probably irrelevant with the space age treatment Saudis are to give to the environs of the "House of God" , the Makkah 2020 with its 63 hotel towers ringing the site . Culled down to 6 minarets , the Istanbul project now matches the Sultanahmet but ı , for starters , don't think it's fit for a PM of this Republic to get into a contest with the Ottomans , whose work lasted 6 centuries and more . While it's quite possible we won't survive 2014 . People who approach the city from Marmara will be stunned by the scene of some skyscraper rising behind the mosques of Ottomans , done against the court orders over some 5 years and yet see there is nothing similar behind the one of the PM , and there might be enemies of Democracy whispering to attentive ears that the guy who built the skyscraper behind Ottomans' turns out to be the owner of the house the PM rents in Istanbul . Does it really fall to me to remind that the political Right in Turkey likes the Ottomans and it might hurt when we actually need National Unity ? For real , not as a ploy to get votes for A-K-P ...