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 This site is about rather unique stories from my own zeitgeist, that I want to share with.
It was the spring of 1995 when I first launched my web site.
I was a research assistant trying to complete the MSc degree. And at the same time trying to discover the internet. My personal web site was one of the first ones in Turkey, and one of the pioneers in the world also.
But in time, especially after I founded my own software business, I removed the site and became a total spectator in the internet world.
Now it's time for the change. For all those years I've been a consumer, now it's time to contribute something in return
click here
IMPORTANT!! : I'm renewing the site design, so you may encounter some problems for a while. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Jul 08 > QuitWatch - A Cute Little Application to Help You Quit Smoking
Mar 08 > Rembetika - Songs of Unspoken Sorrow
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Songs of Unspoken Sorrow
March 2008
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 Έμαθα πως είσαι μάγκας, είσαι και μερακλής,
πως γυρίζεις στις ταβέρνες, είσαι και μπελαλής
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I heard that you're a "mangas", and also a "merakli",
you wander around "tavernas" and you're also a "belali".
It may seem weird that some Turkish man writing about Rembetika.
But after years of interest, hundreds of hours spent on reading and thousands of drachmas spent on rempetika books and cassettes; I feel a humble authority to write something on this unique music phenomena.
On the other hand, being born in Mikra Asia is also a good reference.
click to read "Rembetika - Songs of Unspoken Sorrow"
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A Group of Rembetes from 1925
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Diaries of a young woman, lived in 1930s, died in her 25
11st November 2006
How it feels to die when you're only 25?
I imagine myself dying when I'm 25. To be buried with passions to be fulfilled, things to be done.
Melek Kobra lived in 1930s' Istanbul. In a country transforming itself and integrating to modern world. She was also an important figure of this transformation.
She died of tuberculosis, and in her last three years, she began to write diaries. She was aware of her fate, but she kept writing it, to her very last days.
Her diaries were found in 2006, nearly seventy years after her death.
click for details
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Melek Kobra
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| Cyprus - Divided forever?
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29 July 2006
In June 2006, Zeynep and I visited Cyprus. It was our first time in the island. I was born in 1971, and my entire life has passed waiting for the Cyprus problem to be solved.
These are my impressions after this first visit to the island. Unfortunately, now, I have less hope for the re-unification of Cyprus. I will not see it in my lifetime.
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A quite café in Famagusta with a nice view of old city on background |
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May 2006 Maybe our universe is stranger than we expect - Dark Matter, read article
BBC's documentaries are quite interesting. Sometimes they cover controversial issues as 'String Theory', 'Eleven Dimesions' and so.
... it seems that only 4% of all the matter is made up of atoms and observable by us. The others? The others are called as dark matter and dark energy.
Apr 2006 Cesária Évora - touches deep in your heart, read article
It was the spring of 2005 when I first listened one of Cesária Évora songs : Sodade. She was singing a duet with Eleutheria Arvanitaki. As I'm a real fan of Arvanitaki, this simply was enough reference for her.
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