#Asli Erdogan

[ernestinee]

Lectures 2024

A lire

L'assassin royal - Époque 1, Robin Hobb

Jusqu'au bout de la peur, Geoffrey Moorhouse

Batman, Année un, Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli

La Passe-miroir, Livre 1, Christelle Dabos

Petit traité des grandes vertus, André Comte-Sponville

Le clan des Otori, tomes 4 et 5, Lian Hearn

La patience des traces, Jeanne Benameur

Arbos Anima 3,4 et 5

Donjon

Kafka sur le rivage, Murakami

Chroniques de l'oiseau à ressort, Murakami

1q84, tomes 2 et 3, Haruki Murakami

La danse des damnées, Kiran milwood hargrave

Rocky, dernier rivage, Thomas Gunzig

Les déraisons, Odile d'Outremont

Envol, Kathleen Jennings

Fables livre 1, Bill Willingham et Mark Buckingham

Un apprentissage ou le livre des plaisirs

La belle famille, Laure de Rivières

Le fardeau tranquille des choses, Ruth L. Ozeki

L'été où tout a fondu, Tiffany Mc Daniel

Et toujours les forêts, Sandrine Collette

Une bête au paradis, Cécile Coulon

Le livre d'Eve, Meg Clothier

L'heure du retour. Christopher M. Hood

La femme gelée, Annie Ernaux

Lus: (les tags ci dessous pour retrouver mon petit mot pour chaque livre)

1. Tant que le café est encore chaud, Toshikazu Kawaguchi ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 01/01

2. Prométhée et la boîte de Pandore, Luc Ferry (BD) ⭐⭐ - 17/01

3. La maison aux sortilèges, Emilia Hart. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 21/01

4. Le chant d'Achille, Madeline Miller. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 25/02

5. Accident de personne, Florence Mendez. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 27/02

6. L'été de la sorcière, Nashiki Kaho ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 08/03

7. 10000 litres d'horreur pure, Thomas Gunzig ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 09/03

8. Les jolis garçons, Delphine de Vigan ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 14/03

9. Là où les arbres rencontrent les étoiles, Glendy Vanderah ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 24/03

10. Patients, Grand Corps Malade. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 20/04

11. Le passage de la nuit, Murakami ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 29/04

12. Un miracle, Victoria Mas ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 12/05

13. Le dernier jour d'un condamné, Victor Hugo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 20/05

14. Acide sulfurique, Amélie Nothomb ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 30/05

15. Croire aux fauves, Nastassja Martin ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 31/05

16. La clarté de la Lune, Lian Hearn ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ - 02/07

17. Mon mari, Maud Ventura. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 21/07

18. J'étais là avant, Katherine Pancol ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 31/07

19. Au prochain arrêt, Hiro Arikawa ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 04/08

20. Réparer les vivants, Maylis de Kerangal ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐- 24/08

21. Les papillons, Barcella. ⭐⭐⭐- 01/09

22. L'homme coquillage, Asli Erdogan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 12/09

23. Autopsy, Sophie Buyse. ⭐⭐⭐ - 17/10

24. Morphine, Mikhaïl Boulgakov. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 19/10

25. Le jeune homme, Annie Ernaux ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 20/10

26. Tout le bleu du ciel, Roman graphique d'après le roman de Melissa da Costa ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 20/10

27. Antigone, Anouilh. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - 11/11

28. Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, E.E. Schmitt. ⭐⭐⭐ - 14/11 #fleurs #j'ai mis trop de hashtags

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

May 16, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAY 17, 2023

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has been on a tour of visits with European leaders. On May 13 he met with Pope Francis, who offered help finding the Ukrainian children kidnapped by the Russians and returning them to Ukraine, and with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The next day he met with German chancellor Olaf Scholz before flying to France to meet with President Emmanuel Macron. On Monday, Zelensky made a surprise visit to the United Kingdom, where he met with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The European Parliament and the Foundation of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen awarded the Ukrainian people and Zelensky the Charlemagne Prize “for their fight for freedom and democracy against the unjustified Russian war of aggression. This award underscores the fact that Ukraine is part of Europe and that its people and its government—headed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy—support and defend European values, and therefore deserve encouragement to enter swiftly into accession negotiations with the European Union.” Leaks linked to Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira have revealed a dynamic landscape. On the basis of those leaks, on May 13 the Washington Post reported that Zelensky’s calm public demeanor is different from his private positions, which have called for a much more aggressive stance toward Russia. On May 14 the Washington Post reported on a leaked document revealing that Yevgeniy Prigozhin had offered in January to tell Ukraine where Russian forces were positioned if it would pull back from the front in Bakhmut, where Prigozhin’s Wagner Group mercenaries were getting pounded. On Sunday, as Zelensky was receiving promises of more European support, Ukraine said it had captured more than ten key Russian positions near Bakhmut. Last week, Germany announced its largest aid package to Ukraine since the war began—a package of nearly $3 billion—and U.S. Abrams tanks arrived in Germany ahead of schedule for training Ukrainian troops. Rumors are swirling about the health of Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko, one of Putin’s key allies, who has not been seen recently and has skipped important public events. In July, leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will gather in Vilnius, Lithuania, to discuss strengthening the organization’s defenses against Russia, and the relationship of NATO to Ukraine. Meanwhile, the U.S. and the European Council have been hosting peace talks between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan after Russian peacekeepers have become ineffective. And U.S. Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources Richard Verma is currently on a trip to Poland, Moldova, and Romania to “emphasize the United States’ commitment to our European Allies and partners, Transatlantic security, and our shared democratic values” even as Russia seeks to destabilize Moldova. Elections in Turkey have produced a runoff between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Kilicdaroglu has promised to move Turkey closer to Europe than would Erdogan, who has swung toward Russia and authoritarianism. Turkey is a member of NATO, and Erodgan has ruled it for two decades, eroding its democracy. Opponents of Erdogan have coalesced behind Kilicdaroglu, who is popular enough that he managed to get within striking distance of Erdogan despite the leader’s attempt to rig the vote. Expert on Turkish foreign policy and fellow at the Brookings Institution Asli Aydintasbas told Jared Malsin and Elvan Kivilcim of the Wall Street Journal: “A Turkey that tilts a little more toward Europe or NATO, even if it’s not a full pivot, that would be a huge change for the global balance of power, particularly with Russia’s war on Ukraine.”

U.S. senior officials are in Detroit this week for one of a series of meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, a group of 21 countries with nearly 40 percent of the global population— almost 3 billion people— and nearly 50 percent of global trade.  APEC members account for more than 60 percent of U.S. goods exports and seven of our top ten overall trading partners. Hosting APEC this year was supposed to show “U.S. economic leadership and multilateralism in the Indo-Pacific and highlight the direct impact of international economic engagement on prosperity here in the United States,” an illustration of the Biden administration’s outreach in the Indo-Pacific.  But just as Biden’s attempts to counter Russia and China and shore up democracy globally are bearing fruit, he has to cut short his visit to Australia and Papua New Guinea, where he was scheduled to travel after this weekend’s meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) in Hiroshima, Japan. The G7 is a forum of the leaders of France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada, along with the European Union, to discuss economic and governmental policies. The debt ceiling crisis is forcing Biden to come home early rather than continue to strengthen ties in the region. Today, more than 140 leaders of the biggest U.S. companies published an open letter to the president and congressional leaders “to emphasize the potentially disastrous consequences of a failure by the federal government to meet its obligations.” They noted that when the government approached a default in 2011 under similar circumstances, the U.S. lost its AAA bond rating (which it has never regained), the stock market lost 17% of its value for more than a year, and “Moody’s reported that the heightened uncertainty from this crisis resulted in 1.2 million fewer jobs, a 0.7 percentage point higher unemployment rate, and a $180 billion smaller economy than it otherwise would have—dire impacts that occurred without an actual default.” House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), are refusing to raise the debt ceiling, which is a limit to how much money the Treasury can raise to pay existing obligations, in order to extract budget cuts they cannot get through the normal process of legislation. While Republicans claim to be concerned about spending, it is notable that they have flat-out refused to help reduce the deficit by closing tax loopholes that would raise $40 billion. They also refuse to consider any measure that would raise taxes, focusing solely on spending cuts. Meanwhile, Americans for Prosperity, a group funded by billionaire Charles Koch, has rolled out an ad campaign putting pressure on Biden and Democratic senators in the battleground states of Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin to give in to Republican demands rather than insist on the same clean debt ceiling Congress passed three times under Trump.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[visitfairford]

MEET THE ERDOGAN FAMILY

During the late 1800s, the Erdogan family made their way to the States in search of a better life for their children like so many others. They arrived in California right at the sunset of the Gold Rush, among the last of the families to arrive and assess what was left of the drying up mines. This made them perfect shoe-ins for the Fairford trek, eagerly joining the other nine families in their departure of California towards Washington.

After settling in Fairford, the Erdogan family made a name for themselves by opening the first bar in town. Amid prohibition in the 1920s, the family created the first (and only) speakeasy in town, what is now known as Poshed and Sloshed. It became a haven for the town's residents to sneak away and enjoy a drink in the company of others.

Even post-prohibition, Poshed and Sloshed remains the go-to place for those in search of a speakeasy, or just a place to enjoy a drink among good company. The Erdogan family still owns the bar to this day and has kept it smoothly running for over a century.

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Hande Ercel, Bensu Soral, Ozge Ozacar, Emre Bey, Halil Babur, Melih Ozkaya, Can Yaman, Melisa Asli Pamuk, Serkan Cayoglu, Sevda Erginci, Tolga Mendi.

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[gabrielle1953]

Finalement, elle comprit que la seule personne capable de donner un sens au vide qui l'entourait, c'était elle. Personne d'autre ne pouvait à sa place déchiffrer les énigmes de la vie, ouvrir les cadenas.  La ville dont la cape est rouge Asli Erdogan

[mariacallous]

No quid pro quo for US F-16s, says Turkish FM 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has seized opportunity in the crisis that is the Ukraine war: leveraging his star turn as mediator between Moscow and Kyiv, flirting with rapprochement with Syria, rebuilding ties with Israel and the Gulf, and trying to steady US-Turkey relations. 

His actions come across as both urgent and purposeful, given a difficult economy and elections now slated for May 14, as Nazlan Ertan reports. 

The opposition coalition has yet to name a candidate, and an expected close race seems increasingly to tilt, if slightly, in Erdogan’s favor.

Such was the context last week when Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu came to Washington for meetings with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The Biden administration has proposed selling F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, in return, unofficially, and not as a condition, for Ankara approving Sweden’s membership bid for NATO. 

If that’s not the official deal, it is the expectation in Washington. Erdogan is at ease, however, with high-stakes diplomacy. He is flashing no sign that he buys into the linkage, at least not now, and certainly not before the election. 

“The two issues are separate and are running their own course,” said Cavusoglu on Wednesday, adding that Turkey will consider the membership bids of both Finland and Sweden in the steps laid out in the trilateral memorandum from June 2022, such as cracking down on anti-Turkish militant groups, extraditing dozens of people and lifting all bans on arms sales to Turkey. 

All NATO member parliaments must approve the membership bids, and Turkey is the last holdout.

While Ankara is expected to approve Finland’s request, Cavusoglu said, “Sweden is only at the beginning of the road” in meeting the conditions in the memorandum. 

The Turkish foreign minister also seemed unmoved by opposition to the F-16 sale from, among others, US Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Menendez is linking his support to an improvement in Turkey’s human rights record, as Elizabeth Hagedorn reports. 

The Biden administration, said Cavusoglu, “should not bow down” to objections from a few critics on the Hill. 

The takeaway from the visit is that both Washington and Ankara seek to keep often-fractious relations as steady as possible until after the May 14 elections. 

“We haven’t come to the actual negotiation phase on these accounts, and everyone is collecting and dangling their cards,” said Asli Aydintasbas, visiting fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “There will be no serious discussions on the F-16s or NATO membership or much else until after the elections.” 

Exclusive Polling on Turkey: Check out our Al-Monitor-Premise polls on the Turkish election and how people in Turkey, and elsewhere in the Middle East, view the food security crisis resulting from the Ukraine war. 

Turkey-Syria dialogue unsettles rebel groups 

Although a rapprochement between Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad does not appear imminent, the uptick in official talks has unsettled many of the 3.5 million Syrian refugees in Turkey and rebel armed groups, including those backed by Ankara. 

The refugees are uneasy about increasing anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey, and the prospect of perhaps forced repatriation to Syria, if there is a Turkey-Syria agreement, as Joshua Levkovitz reports. 

Rebels linked to the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army also wonder if their patron could withdraw and leave them vulnerable to Assad’s forces. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the jihadi outfit with origins in Al-Qaeda, and which holds sway in Idlib, has tried to capitalize on the uncertainty to expand its influence as the only bona fide nationalist force, as Fehim Tastekin reports. 

Marita Kassis reports here on the fighting this week between Russian-backed Syrian government forces and both HTS and Ahrar Al Sham, another jihadist group, in Idlib and Aleppo provinces. 

In an exclusive interview with Amberin Zaman, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander Mazloum Kobane said he expects a Turkish ground offensive into northeast Syria as soon as February. 

“We want peace,” said Kobane. “But should we be attacked, we will fight with all our might.” 

“The Syrian space is heating up in many ways, with the clashes among the many forces on the ground,” said Aydintasbas. “While volatile, the signs don’t seem to point to an imminent incursion by Turkey, but it can change.” 

The Biden Administration has repeatedly called for Turkey to refrain from an incursion, and this was conveyed to Cavusoglu in Washington. Like the F-16 sale and NATO expansion, Erdogan is likely to defer his next move in Syria until after May, as talks continue with Washington on a Syrian roadmap. 

Jihadists could stage comeback 

One outcome of a possible Turkey-Syria deal could be a return of battle-hardened Syrian jihadists to Turkey and Europe, writes Tastekin. 

And Gilles Kepel, now writing for Al-Monitor, speculates that what happens in Syria can’t be de-linked from Ukraine, raising the specter of a possible new wave of terrorism to Europe.

“The main worry ahead now lies in the protracted consequences of the Ukraine war, which was dubbed a holy jihad by some Chechens fighting alongside Moscow,” writes Kepel. “It might develop into violence against Kyiv's Western allies if the Turkish-Syrian border would be further destabilized in the run-up to the Turkish presidential elections due on May 14.”

[lesmotsquejauraisaimeecrire]

La mort est si bruyante. J'ai seulement entendu son rire.

“Requiem pour une ville perdue”, Asli Erdogan, Actes Sud, 2020, p. 88

[celebratingamazingwomen]

Aslı Erdoğan (b. 1967) is a Turkish author, journalist and human rights activist. She was the recipient of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize in 2018.

She studied physics and computer engineering and worked for a period of time as a particle physicist for the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Her novels were translated in several languages and won international prizes. In 2016 she was arrested for being a contributor to the newspaper Özgür Gündem (New Agenda).

[lyatheo]

Le gant de velours noir se referme ... Elle lèche le corps        comme une langue humide pénètre dans les pores par toutes les fissures et là au plus profond trouve son rythme. “La Mer” résonne à chaque battement de pouls ... (Asli Erdogan)

(Photographie : © Alessandro Puccinelli ~ “Tiny Giants”)

[nemoanimus]

Aimer vraiment un être humain, c'est aimer chez lui les bizarreries que personne n'accepte, qu'il n'accepte pas lui-même, voire qu'il ne remarque même pas. Car les traits de caractères essentiels d'une personne se cachent dans les disharmonies.

Asli Erdogan

[soul-and-blues]

... on porte toujours en soi son premier amour.

Asli Erdogan

[visitfairford]

MEET THE ERDOGAN FAMILY

During the late 1800s, the Erdogan family made their way to the States in search of a better life for their children like so many others. They arrived in California right at the sunset of the Gold Rush, among the last of the families to arrive and assess what was left of the drying up mines. This made them perfect shoe-ins for the Fairford trek, eagerly joining the other nine families in their departure of California towards Washington.

After settling in Fairford, the Erdogan family made a name for themselves by opening the first bar in town. Amid prohibition in the 1920s, the family created the first (and only) speakeasy in town, what is now known as Poshed and Sloshed. It became a haven for the town's residents to sneak away and enjoy a drink in the company of others.

Even post-prohibition, Poshed and Sloshed remains the go-to place for those in search of a speakeasy, or just a place to enjoy a drink among good company. The Erdogan family still owns the bar to this day and has kept it smoothly running for over a century.

SUGGESTED FCS FOR THE ERDOGAN FAMILY:

Hande Ercel, Bensu Soral, Ozge Ozacar, Emre Bey, Halil Babur, Melih Ozkaya, Can Yaman, Melisa Asli Pamuk, Serkan Cayoglu, Sevda Erginci, Tolga Mendi.

PLOT | GUIDELINES | ASK | APPLY

[coeurbruler]

La mort est si bruyante. J'ai seulement entendu son rire.

Requiem pour une ville perdue, Asli Erdogan.

[mzelletetedslesnuages]

Finalement, elle comprit que la seule personne capable de donner un sens au vide qui l'entourait, c'était elle. Personne d'autre ne pouvait à sa place déchiffrer les énigmes de la vie, ouvrir les cadenas. Elle avait commencé à écrire le jour où elle avait déterminé sa position de défense contre la violence aveugle de la ville

La ville dont la cape est rouge de Asli Erdogan