CONTENTS

Blog Posts

Some Sustainability Notes Today, August 20, 2021

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"Kayıt cihazları" ile ilgili bir eskiz, Ege, Abu Dabi, 2010lar

Pandemic, Screen, Reunion

Being so connected to one’s phone... How did we ever live without it? Pre-2000… Our cognitive maps changed completely. I swear, our brains, our brain structures have changed.
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With the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Mme. Espinoza, at the Sustainable Development forum (HLPF), New York.

The Frequent Flyer

We are starting a new style here, of writing some ‘blog pieces’… Let’s see how it will go! So how is life? ‘Çok şükür’… Thank God.. Gottseidank. We are alive. The climate is changing, Greta the Climate Action Kid is leading the world and we are following avidly.
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New observations and suggestions regarding Oy ve Ötesi

See: Text in Turkish
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Elveda, Olaylı 2013!

Geleneksel Yeni Yıl Mektubumun 2013 edisyonundan alıntılar…
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In Memory of our Professor Emre Madran

Text (in Turkish) of my memorial speech for our dear colleague…
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The Race to Slowness

(With thanks to Özlem Özülker..) Engage in the oft-missing…
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Crowdfunding Campaigns

Full Page Ad in the New York Times on the Gezi Protests: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/full-page-ad-for-turkish-democracy-in-action Istanbul…
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Notes about handling the ‘culture of speed’

I recently read a book called The Culture of Speed by John Tomlinson.…
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Mongolian Weekly News no. 8 – The Final Episode!

Greetings to everybody once again, with one last cyber-newsletter before I fly back to Ankara via Moscow next Sunday. The MWC is quite a bit longer, in the effort not to leave anything left unsaid that could or should be said about this Mongolian experience, additional commentary.
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Mongolian Weekly News no. 7 – New Year Edition

Date: January 2, 2000 Dear Friends, How are you after the…
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Mongolian Weekly News no. 6

Welcome to the last MWC of the year. I hope the holidays have been going well for you so far. As for UB, Christmas is being celebrated around the relevant pious households and communities, with the appropriate snowy urban landscape to accompany.
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Mongolian Weekly News no. 5

Ha ha! Thought I’d given up, eh?.. Alas, I am back to plug up your inboxes once again! hope all your weeks have been fine and full of good fortune. As it is the time of the year where everybody is wishing each other well as part of the season’s greetings, I hope the general rise of positive energy has been helping in this respect.
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Mongolian Weekly News no. 4

Welcome back to another gruelling round of MWN. This time, though, the @#$% computer has stabbed me in the back and malfunctioned, so after a lot of lost time, whatever nerves and good spirits left will be squeezed out into a more shorthand-type mail.
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Mongolian Weekly News no. 3

Here is yet another episode of the by-now-getting-established News from Mongolia. Even though it is 2 am here, I am very intent on finishing this on time (i.e. one week from the previous one) and being disciplined about it.
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Mongolian Weekly News no. 2

As a result of some nice feedback, I got used to the idea of writing the story of my daily life and times in the Far East to you good people. (Maybe you can gather that it is not the busiest of places in the world, so that I can sit down and write stuff like this!)
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Mongolian Rhapsody

Hi from Ulaan Baatar… I arrived yesterday from Beijing. Directly my parents whisked me off to an international women’s club ball, with a grand raffle and dancing and a lot of smiling, fake and not, where my fatigue after traveling from 7.30 am onwards topped with some wine finally showed their effects, and today I slept till 12 noon.
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Mongolia 1999-2000

The Mongolian Weekly Cyber, November 1999- January 2000 Introduction At…
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Southeast Anatolia 2001

Joi (my friend Jaideep Chakrabarti) and I met with the tour group at İstanbul – Atatürk Airport. Threw ourselves into the airplane, for the 07.00 am Diyarbakır flight, in a grumpy early morning mood..!
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Gallipoli 2003

Last year, some things that happened to me one after the other affected me in such a way that I promised myself, many months in advance, to “go to commemorate Gallipolu next year”.
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