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Mon, 22 May 2006

An Interview with Hovard Zinn

Hovard Zinn has been an inspiration to me. I found his views on non-violence, civil disobedience and most importantly his work on alternative history that is very well documented be of close relevance to missing political activism in mainstream Cypriot politics. I am pasting a recent interview with Zinn. He is again quite clear about his points. I had commented about his writings on civil disobedience and his historical work on many occasions in my articles in Hamamboculeri.Org:

  Who will write "The People's History of Modern Cyprus"? Please Stand Up.December 4th, 2004 

 Cık deycem.September 7th, 2002

 Sivil İtaatsızlık ve Demokrasi: ABD Örneği Hakkında, July 31st, 2001

 Direk Demokrasi ve Sivil Başkaldırı, July 9th, 2001

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Deep Rooted Relationships Coming out of the Court attack in Turkey
Below is the original Turkish text of a piece published in Radikal Newspaper May 22nd, 2006. The piece gives information about the relationships of various players in the court attack in  Turkey which is turning out to be potentially part of a larger movement relating the right-wing nationalists, the religious right and the nationalist-left. I found it interesting since it relates to important figures to the "Turk Mukavemet Teskilati" (TMT) in Cyprus which is well known to be part of the so-called "Turkish deep-state" (a.k.a. Turkish Gladio).

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