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Tuesday, 29 January 2019

GREVIO

“AKP Hükümeti, GREVİO'nun yeni yönetim kuruluna Türkiye'yi temsilen Feride Acar'ın yerine Tenzile Erdoğan Kız Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi Müdürü Aşkın Asan'ı "tek aday" olarak önerdi.”
"İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi’nde Öğretim Üyesi olarak görev yaparken Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan’ın 2015 yılında açılışını yaptığı ve annesi merhume Tenzile Erdoğan’ın adı verilen Üsküdar’daki Kız Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi’nin okul müdürlüğüne getirildi."
2002-2004 yılları arasında Dubai Ajman University of Science and Technology’de görevlendirildi. 2004’de Bilgisayar ve Öğretim Teknolojileri Eğitimi alanında doçent oldu. Sultan Qaboos Üniversitesi Öğretim Teknolojileri Bölümü’nde öğretim üyesi olarak çalıştı. Dekan Yardımcılığı ve Bölüm Başkan Yardımcılığı görevlerini yürüttü. Araştırma projeleri yürütücülüğü yaptı. 23. Dönem’de Ankara Milletvekili olarak Parlamentoda görev yaptı. TBMM’de Akdeniz Parlamenter Asamblesi (APA) Türk Grubu Başkanı, Milli Eğitim, Gençlik ve Spor Komisyonu ve İKÖPAB Türk Grubu Üyesi oldu. 
2011-2014 Yılları arasında Aile ve Sosyal Politikalar Bakanlığı Bakan Yardımcısı görevini yürüttü. 
2014 yılında profesörlük unvanını aldı.  1 Kasım 2014 tarihinde Avrasya Üniversitesinde Genel Koordinatör olarak görev yaptı. 
03. Mart.2015 tarihinde Avrasya Üniversitesi Rektörü olarak atandı.
Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan'ın akademisyenlere "Bazı profesörlerimiz çıksın; ‘Ben imam-hatip okullarında yöneticilik yapmaya varım.’ desin. İşte reform budur” çağrısı üzerine Aşkın Asan, İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi’nde Öğretim Üyesi olarak görev yaparken Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan’ın 2015 yılında açılışını yaptığı ve annesi merhume Tenzile Erdoğan’ın adı verilen Üsküdar’daki Kız Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi’nin okul müdürlüğüne getirildi. Aşkın Asan halen bu okulda müdür olarak görevine sürdürüyor"
İstanbul Sözleşmesinin bahsedildiği gibi dünyada ve Avrupa'da pek ön planda bir anlaşma olduğunu düşünmüyorum. Britanya'da hala tam olarak yürürlüğe girmedi. Kıta Avrupa'sında da çok parlak olduğunu sanmıyorum. Türkiye'de de bence çok iyi götürülmedi.

RTE ve AKP çevrelerinin Londra ziyaretlerinde bu konuya kafayı taktıklarını zannediyorum. Pek anlayabilecekleri bir konu değil. Velhasıl kadın hareketinde de bu konuyu ele alabilecek, muhalefet ya da entelektüel otoritesini ortaya koyabilecek pek kimse de yok. Bunun dışında GREVIO için tek aday önerilmesine karşın; Avrupa Konseyi'nin dikkatini, GREVIO aday adaylığının demokratik prensiplere aykırılığına çekmek için bişeyler yapılabilir. 

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Türkiye'de modernleşmeyi siyasetin ve toplumun kısımlarına ayırarak incelemekte fayda var. Askeriye ya da bürokrasi, sosyal güvenlik modernleşmiş olabilir. Ancak topluma bu sırada en az 15 sene kaybettirmiş olan konu bu kadın meselesidir, İstanbul Anlaşmasıyla da sadece kristalize olmuştur. 

Türkiye'de kadın toplumun değil siyasetin bir parçası. Demokrasi nedir, tüm Türkiye gibi bilmiyorlar, haliyle inançları da yok. Demokrasi olmak yerine demokratikleşmeye çalışan Türkiye'de, bunun için çaba sarf edenlerin de pek dikkate değer amaç ve başarısı yok ya da binbir zorlukla akıntıya kürek çekmek pahasına bişeyler yapabiliyorlar.  

Türkiye'de kadınlar sadece bir maskeden ibaret, bunu yaratan da erkekler. Kadın hareketinin eylemlerinde bu kadar bağırmaları ve agresifleşmelerinin nedeni de bundan. Benliklerini ancak bir maskeymiş gibi tanıyabildiklerinden, alışkanlıkla bağlandıkları maskeyle de ikircikli bir mücadele içindeler, bu maskenin nasıl olduğu erkeklerle de ilişkili ve erkeklerin iktidar mevkiinde oldukları yerlerde, erkekler bunun başat belirleyicisi, tüm bunlara karşın maskenin arkasından da seslerini duyurmaya çalışıyorlar, maskelerinden rahatsızlar, kızıyorlar ve anlaşılıyorlar mı bilmiyorlarken bağırıyorlar, sinirleniyorlar.

Demokratikleşme maskeye üst üste yapılan makyajdan başka birşey değil. Sosyal medyanın olanakları buna örnek olarak gösterilebilir. Uygarlıktaki sefalete karşın geçici ya da üstün körü bir çözümden başka bişey değil.

Böyle bir siyasetin parçası olmak da kadın meselesinde tüm sorunların merkezi.

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Venedik'te karnaval döneminde takılan maskeler, Venediklilerin deniz aşırı diyarlarda keşfettikleri güzelliklerden anılar, tarih ve halk oyunlarından kalan miraslarındandı. Aristokrat ve zanaatçı giyindikleri kıyafetin içinde o günler eşitçe sohbet edebilirdi. 

Maske sadece özgürlüğün, serüvenin ve güzelliğin göstergesiydi. Kutlama, Venediklilere has bu erdemlerle yapılırdı.

Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Politics and Law - Ergenekon or "Authentic Modern Exodus" - History, politics and violations to the separation of Powers

Postal stamps printed in the 1930s.

Here in this blog I've seen the very important need to reexamin the cases that Turkey's political and judicial institutes as well as the public been through in the last decade, such as those related the armed forces, terrorist organizations, abuse / misuse of power etc. 

These cases like Ergenekon is very much impossible to understand looking within a contemporary framework of law. Complicated penal procedures with impossible to comprehend evidences and jailing of the security and armed forces officials without just information to the public of the reason, kind of a propagation to the public of the end of the primacy of law in Turkey as well as giving an opinion like from now on you live in an occupied land: as the general staff etc. were put in the prison.

In this essay I want to first define what was Ergenekon and how a folkloric myth was somehow named for a case aiming to trial a group of people of planning a military coup so committing a crime against the State as a terrorist act.

Ergenekon apart from its so-called Turkic origins is actually has one important significance as a folkloric or national myth that is the blacksmith which I have also observed in the Indo-European tribes as well as symbolizing the era of the human history giving shape to the iron and using it for various needs, which also dates back to the ancient era in different civilizations.

The folkloric narrative, Ergenekon as a national tale in one sense, is a story of finding a way, or escape in different versions it is the escape from the Chinese imperialism or poverty etc. 

There is a similarity we see between the Moses exiting from the Egypt in the Book of Exodus which is symbolising the tyranny towards his people and there is an important part of which he is singing while exiting which may be interpreted as finding his/her own voice for it is a person or nation while being on the road, also.

Such tales like Ergenekon is actually symbolizing, in the modern age, also with the national movements, of exiting the poverty or being underdeveloped through not as the symbol indicates by shaping the iron but moreover by the industry, or industrialization. 

But such is also requires some other qualifications for the nations as industrialization is a difficult thing and the promotion for the exercise of body for a better physical strength by the State is one of the facet of it, which is lately criticised as being a militaristic culture jeopardizing the right and freedom of the individual.

Turkey was so much ignorant as a whole that during that time of the Ergenekon cases: Russia (as being the weakest of the Indo-Europeans) and Tatars (As being the least likened of the Turkics in Turkey) has also been stigmatized for being related to the Ergenekonism (Ergenekonculuk) semantically meaning unable to be part of a modern democratic culture but apt to remain in a primitif state of humanity being so close to the animosity towards different thoughts and cultures so being close to the military. 

As being a Roumelian, Crimean Tatar and a White Russian, I think of there are rights and freedoms of mine violated during that period of Turkey, but whatever.

In Turkey, anti-democratic sentiments, anomosity towards different cultures and nations, praising of the traits belonging to the primitif state of human especially for the relation between the men and the women was really the case when I was young I remember well. Aggression and violence was an important cult either in the right or the left politics. 

But these were important but different subjects had to be discussed apart from the violation to the separation of powers.

A working hypothesis is being developed concerning the major question of anti-Semitism in modern Europe and the gradation of the phenomenon from the most virulent forms in Central and Eastern Europe to its minimal expression South-eastern Europe (Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece). A first impression which requires much research verification, is that the ideological basis of organized state and para-state anti-Semitism rests on prototypes provided by societies with strongly entrenched ancient régimes. Although the Nazi extermination program required the efficiency of a modern totalitarian state, the source from which Nazism, Fascism, the Iron Guard, the Utasha, and the Arrow Cross drew their inspiration was the principle of every individual being predestined to a particular station in life --all alien to the Enlightenement and liberal middle-class thinking.
Alex Kitroeff, Athens:1995 
Also in the book of the William Hale and Ergün Özbudun "Islamism, Democracy and Liberalism in Turkey: The Case of the AKP": it is debated that (also with the contributions of Gareth Jenkins) that the Ergenekon case period was somewhat related to the period in the 1990s termed as the "Dirty War in the East" (or Doksanlar, in Turkish).

Whatever it was, those who were jailed in my opinion have abused the values of the Turkish Republic and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk so much that even it was told among the public "They're jailing who are in favor of Atatürk". For a certain part of the Turkish intellectuals it was very well known that what was going on had also a "political" aspect and those in power were trying to eliminate their political adversaries those who don't share the same thoughts and avoid making compromise.

But such a contention and clash should NEVER AND EVER have instrumentalised the fundamental values of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Democracy, Primacy of the Law, The Rule of Law, Independence of the Judges, Independence of the Courts.

Sunday, 29 October 2017

Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Legal reforms

"Western law is normally regarded as universal when considered from the fact that it has been received and utilised by non-Western countries as the basis of their own state legal systems. It is accordingly natural that jurisprudence, among both Western and most non-Western scholars as well, tends to observe the development of a non-Western legal system as a history of received Western law. In fact, because of their different underlying cultural histories, there have been countless incongruities and conflicts between received Western law and indigenous non-Western law. However, these points have rarely been taken seriously by orthodox jurisprudence - a situation which may seem reasonable from the Western point of view, but is certainly not from the non-Western.

Non-Western people have each cherished their indigenous law as an integral part of their cultural heritage. During their long histories their law has on occasions encountered foreign law, whether voluntarily or not, and these encounters have led sometimes to peaceful assimilation and sometimes destructive struggle between indigenous and received law. The indigenous law may sometimes have failed to maintain itself, while at others it may have succeeded either by rejecting the encountered law or by adapting itself to conserve its cultural identity. Contemporary non-Western law is thus seen as one in a current state in an ongoing process of self-developing indigenous law whether successfully or not. "

Asian Indigenous Law: In Interaction with Received Law 
Edited by Masaji Chiba
(KPI: 1986, London - New York)

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