The Vile Beast feeds other beasts in its own Image #5
The character born of Brecht’s “beast” seems to have cloned over the decades. Bolsonaro, Orban, Salvini, Turmp, Duterte, Erdoğan, the list could go on for a long time still.
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Résultats de recherche pour: Renée Lucie Bourges
Turkey • 10 Days of Fires and of Scandals
Fires in Turkey: We translate a thread shared on twitter. No additional comments, for archival purposes.
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Fehim Taştekin • Brothers, sisters, hold on to your sanity!
Translation of Fehim Taştekin’s article in Turkish, published on Duvar on August 2. “We are going through days in which we must concentrate on keeping our sanity”.
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Dersim Orphans, Slaves to Sıdıka, Servants to Officers #3
I still search for Geyik. I would like to gently touch the wound on her right shoulder blade, let the pus run out, bind it… Where is Geyik?
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The Vile Beast Feeds Beasts in its own Image #4
Fascism is not only a nationalist violence and the political system orchestrating it, but a full-blown ideology that always theorizes itself somewhere as a response to crises.
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Sıdıka Avar and the Elazığ Assimilation Center #2
So here is this Sıdıka Avar, who has become the hand of Atatürk, who will go to the East, and there drown the Kurd in the glory of Turkishness.
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“Crossing Borders” • Nabi Kımran
The smugglers are little coyotes. The real ones, the States, force people whose homes they have destroyed to “cross their borders”.
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The Vile Beast Feeds Beasts in its own Image #3
French media made but sparse comments about the recent verdict of the International Tribunal in The Hague, condemning Ratko Mladić, the “Serbian butcher” and confirming on appeal a life sentence for war crimes and genocide in ex-Yugoslavia.
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Sıdıka Avar, Atatürk’s Missionary #1
Sıdıka Avar arrived in Elazığ. Elazığ, one tooth away from Dersim… Next to Paramaz, Elazığ is the most important fortress of fascism.
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From Rojava, an Open Letter to Brigitte Macron
This letter was addressed to Brigitte Macron, and communicated to the French-speaking press, in May 2021. No answer being given, we make it public.
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Ayşen Şahin • A short and bitter request
To the authorities concerned: Have you ever had to go scrounging for your bread money seven storeys underground?
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Death of Tahir Çetin of the Turkish Independent Mining Union
On July 9 2021, Tahir Çetin, the iconic leader of the Turkish Independent Mining Union and Ali Faik İnter, a young 26 year old member of the union, died in an automobile accident.
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