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Wed, 07 Jun 2006
Nationalism: The IKEA Style!
I just read this hilarious column from Volkan Newspaper (a.k.a. "his master's voice" and/or "the voice of the antiquated wolves") that one columnist describes how he bumped into an IKEA store in Istanbul and realized that everything there (incorrect!) is made in Sweden. Despite his anti-communism and pro-capitalist stance that he proclaims, it hurts his "traditional" and "antique" nationalist feelings that a place like IKEA existed in Istanbul instead of the "good ol'" Turkish furniture, textile and what-not stores. He blasted the Turkish government and the present era for allowing this. Next time I go to IKEA, I will keep this in mind :) For those who may not know, IKEA is a "super-store" of cheap furniture, textiles and other home goods, it is indeed a Swedish company but just like any other "globalized", multi-national chain-store, its products are produced/assembled all over the world. It is the Wal-Mart of these products specially amongst students and middle-class in America. As far as I know, it has recently expanded enourmously in Europe including Turkey too. The latter is my poor observation.
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Complex Information about the Missing
Yeniduzen newspaper is quoting a series of Greek Cypriot papers which give out a complex picture of the missing person's problem. There are claims about "fate known but not reported" and "missing but not reported" people. The turkish text follows.
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And this is the Turkish Cypriot version.
"TRNC PIO" is a valuable source of laughter -- heh heh heh-- which appears to be contending to be a sattirical news source. Anyway, the following are the comments by Ercakica. One could follow the statements within few days of each other and get a picture of what has been going on in the last couple of decades. It is a cyclic repetition. This time "do not mix politics into the issue" is the motto of the Turkish Cypriot side. Ofcourse, you need to turn off your alert system that is triggered by the incomprehensible translation.
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