Meral Aksener: Who? And guys…forgive my snark on anything Turkey-related these days…

Recent Posts

• Another much more coherent thread about Islam and conversion January 26, 2020
• Conversion in the Levant: a long twitter thread with, nevertheless, some interesting questions January 25, 2020
• New header image January 25, 2020
• Photo: Xanthe – İskeçe January 25, 2020
• Photo: P.S. Sifnos January 24, 2020
• Athens: güle güle Güllüoğlu January 24, 2020
• The imam must go; please help us January 24, 2020
• Anna Khachiyan January 24, 2020
• "Stanger's Guide": very cool (if pricey) travel site January 24, 2020
• The New Yorker's interview on Putin January 24, 2020
• Western culture January 22, 2020
• Belgrade joins world's most polluted cities as farmers torch fields January 22, 2020
• Sifnos: a couple in the beautiful local dress, and on one of Greece's most beautiful islands… January 22, 2020
• What nationalist nishtgutniks do when they don’t have anything else to do — which is almost always January 21, 2020
• Religious Minorities of Turkey January 20, 2020
• Another Teutonic digression… January 20, 2020
• RIP Les Amis, p.s. –Holy Shit, I totally left Chris Theodorou… January 20, 2020
• Maddening, and hard not to see as the inherent sterility of mainstream Islam’s war on the beauty of Alevism… January 20, 2020
• “As an Orthodox Christian…” & us and the West and Romans and Otto, the Habsburgs and a Balkan Afghanistan January 19, 2020
• Photos: Armenia January 19, 2020
• Epiphany: for the Old School school January 19, 2020
• “Dola Re Dola” … January 18, 2020
• RIP Les Amis – “The world is too small to contain my pain:” – The last bouzoukia in Astoria January 18, 2020
• Every state’s least favorite state January 18, 2020
• As Franz Josef once said, in all his Viennese fussiness, about the Hungarians: “It was terribly inopportune of these gentlemen to come and plant themselves here in the middle of Europe.” January 17, 2020
• Balkans and demographic decline January 17, 2020
• From Guardian: “Croatia has enchanting words for genitalia?” January 16, 2020
• President January 16, 2020
• Nole! – history will vindicate Serbia… January 13, 2020
• Tripe: FOOD!!! January 12, 2020
• Jordan Peterson: Watch this guy: January 11, 2020
• Word Press and photos: HELP January 10, 2020
• From the Guardian: Here’s what could be lost if Trump bombs Iran’s cultural treasures January 7, 2020
• “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors:” Merry Christmas to Old Calendarists January 7, 2020
• Photo: Sushi in Holargos January 7, 2020
• Serbs: and sometimes you’re real assholes January 7, 2020
• Photo: “Una fazza, una razza:” — @KlairhA — hhhhmmm??? — I dunno January 7, 2020
• From Guardian: Boy, what a model of new-normal ethics and wokeness you Catalans are…such a burden… December 31, 2019
• Serbia detox December 28, 2019
• Oooooof abi, don’t you get tired? Part 2. (Mykonos 1956 photo) December 25, 2019
• Oooooof abi, don’t you get tired? Mykonos 1956 photo (more Stormfront) December 24, 2019
• Merry Christmas December 21, 2019
• Barcelona or Cancún? Startling how young Catalan independistas are… December 19, 2019
• Photo: Mykonos, 1956 December 19, 2019
• Dude…no joke December 4, 2019
• The Man December 4, 2019
• Photo: Armenia is beautiful November 28, 2019
• Photo: Athens’ opens beautiful modern mosaic exhibit November 28, 2019
• November 19th post: Who IS that in photo? Alison Miner, old time reader, writes; Tried to get snarky about covered Muslim women and turns out Orientalist joke’s on me: November 27, 2019
• Cavafy: Of Coloured Glass November 26, 2019
• Photo: Pollution in Delhi November 26, 2019
• Annakhachiyan: smart, babe… November 25, 2019
• I said it: one Chinese New Year 5 years ago — But what do they do now? November 25, 2019
• NYer: “Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables?” November 19, 2019
• What is this a photo of? November 19, 2019
• WHAT?! They’ve lost it…like completely November 18, 2019
• And while we’re on pork, here’s for the glutenophobic November 18, 2019
• I don’t necessarily think I’m against the changing of former churches that had become mosques then museums and then back into mosques again if they weren’t going to be churches again: but I didn’t know, like in the case of the Savior in the Chora in C-Town, that reusing a mosque would necessitate covering up the artwork… See more soon. November 16, 2019
• Jiannena Jew, Romans, Romaniotes, Romioi and us November 16, 2019
• “Bre haydi S*KTIR” — it unites us in the Jadde world — And an à propos use and PERFECT!!! güle-güle for Turkey’s Presidential state visit: — Βρε χάιντε και γαμήσου — The I had thought the most common such word was HAYDI! November 15, 2019
• Why do US elected leaders have to accept this behavior from a thug? @salamamoussa November 15, 2019
• NYer: “After Six Decades, Turkey Is Now a U.S. Ally in Name Only” — then why is it still treated as one; what does treating a country as an enemy look like? November 14, 2019
• “Recep Bey Goes to Washington” — MOTHER FUCKER FUCKING TURKEY!!! — Why not forget the EU and just join NAFTA instead? November 14, 2019
• Nationalism: just something I like to repost now and then November 14, 2019
• Prečani Serbs: I thought this passage from a previous post should also be posted separately November 14, 2019
• Yugoslavia, King Aleksandar and the Карађорђевићи/Karađorđevići, addendum — and a digression about Serbian slava celebrations November 14, 2019
• Archaic torso of Apollo — a favorite Rilke poem that also came to mind with “the Greekest image” post November 13, 2019
• The full Nietzsche quote from “the Greekest image” post November 13, 2019
• Venice floods, worst in decades November 13, 2019
• Yugoslavia: Yeah, you found a very cool stamp. Do you have any clue what it means? November 12, 2019
• This is horrendous: I knew he was diabolical but not the Devil himself November 12, 2019
• Another party I’d like to crash November 12, 2019
• This is perhaps the Greekest image I have ever seen. November 12, 2019
• X. doesn’t like my post on “The insufferable entitledness of bikers” — or lots of other things I’ve written November 12, 2019
• Who knew the Andrews Sisters were Greek-American from Minnesota? November 12, 2019
• Jadde’s homepage photo: Sergei Paradzhanov November 12, 2019
• Sad: “Exchange of populations in the 1920s.” November 12, 2019
• My buddy M. from Novi Sad writes: “You clueless Frangoi with your Pierre-Loti infatuation with Istanbul…” November 12, 2019
• The “comforting illusion” of India November 11, 2019
• You clueless Frangoi with your Pierre-Loti infatuation with Istanbul… November 10, 2019
• Greek assholes: Anti-migrant pork-and-alcohol BBQ held near Diavata refugee camp November 10, 2019
• Photo: Babri Masjid? Did it ever look like this or is photo caption a mistake. November 10, 2019
• Macron: «᾽Ιδού ὁ νυμφίος ἔρχεται…» Not happy with his Balkan policy, but he’s the only man on the world political landscape today with anything even remotely resembling a redeeming vision. November 10, 2019
• Rezili — Greek volunteer thugs in 1990s Bosnia November 10, 2019
• Novak Djokovic piles pressure on Rafael Nadal at ATP Finals November 10, 2019
• Guardian: “Catalonia’s separatists were jailed for sedition, but brought down by hubris” — Giles Tremlett November 10, 2019
• Guardian: “As prime minister, I refuse to let Catalan separatists undermine Spanish democracy” – Pedro Sánchez November 10, 2019
• From Alex Shams @seyyedreza: 70 years after Partition, still so many walls to be torn down November 10, 2019
• The insufferable entitledness of bikers November 10, 2019
• Murtaza Mohammad Hussein on pre-revolutionary Russia and contemporary South Asia November 9, 2019
• Photo: Babri Masjid c. 1890 November 9, 2019
• Babri Masjid: what an expected, but no less infuriating, outrage! November 9, 2019
• NYT: Europeans Bewildered as Trump Stomps Off November 8, 2019
• From New York Times: Timothy Egan — Wokeness November 8, 2019
• Damn, I’d love to crash this party November 7, 2019
• Yiddish: How ‘delicious…’ November 5, 2019
• Constantinople — period unknown — streets and paths of Beyoğlu November 4, 2019
• Twenty years later: The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” — and Adam Driver: “What do you mean, ‘toxic masculinity’?” he asked. November 4, 2019
• Empire: “We cannot destroy it without destroying ourselves.” November 4, 2019
• Erdoğan will send ISIS prisoners back to Europe November 4, 2019
• Photos: Iason Athanasiadis, II November 4, 2019
• “I demand either city-states or a universal imperium of humanity” — great line from Murtaza Mohammad Hussein November 4, 2019
• Me and the Stormfront bros, VII: Kristos, how I’m wrong and Carly Simon: “I bet you think this song is about you…” November 4, 2019
• Me and the Stormfront bros, post VI — A reader writes: nonsense born of fear November 4, 2019
• P.P.P.S. the Beatles at Shea November 4, 2019
• Genocide: what is it and why do we need the term? (repost from 2015) October 31, 2019
• Turkey’s image in the U.S. October 30, 2019
• P.S. Armenians & Kurds — “Atoning for a Genocide” October 30, 2019
• “…one of the most moving traditions in post-Soviet Russia” — remembering Stalin’s victims October 30, 2019
• Photo: more Iason Athanasiadis, I October 30, 2019
• NYT: Armenian Genocide — “For too long, Turkey bullied America into silence. Not anymore.” — Samantha Power October 30, 2019
• Watching Netflix Spanish series: “Elite” — Spain and sin October 26, 2019
• Catalonia, what a weighty moral cross you already have to bear — now tourist slack October 26, 2019
• Byz on German cities October 25, 2019
• Me and the Stromfront bros, V. A reader, C. from Italy, says: October 22, 2019
• Me and the Stromfront bros, IV. A reader, my podruzhka M, from Novi Sad, says: October 22, 2019
• Me and the Stormfront bros, III: Gianni calls me by my Albanian name October 22, 2019
• Me and the Stormfront bros, post II: Yavrum, ηρέμησε… October 22, 2019
• Stormfront I: Just so we know what we’re dealing with in Giannis and — probably — Kristos October 21, 2019
• A Greek (sorry, Hellenic?) White Pride reader says: “you’re wrong, NB” — post I October 21, 2019
• Greek mail October 21, 2019
• “Bad Hombre” Moskos, a landsman of mine, objects, I think, to Greek Gypsy love — “She’s 13” October 20, 2019
• Greek Gypsy love October 20, 2019
• P.P.S. The Beatles October 20, 2019
• Alexandros: “Anybody who steps into my apartment becomes a guest.” October 20, 2019
• Photos: Turkmen and Uzbek carpet merchants 1973, Andkhoy, #Afghanistan. October 20, 2019
• When I get a blog hit from The European Union, like, where is that guy? October 20, 2019
• Russia: “…too great, too big, too vibrant…” October 20, 2019
• Atlantic, Harold Bloom: ““We are,” he said, “destroying all intellectual and aesthetic standards in the humanities and social sciences.” October 20, 2019
• Blues and Rebetiko October 20, 2019
• Jimmy Kimmel: “…Turkey gets everything they want…” October 19, 2019
• Aslı Aydıntaşbaş on the downward spiral in Turkish-US relations — my comment October 19, 2019
• From Turkish Minute: Dink Foundation and Kayseri conference October 18, 2019
• Byzantine Ambassador’s website — check it out October 18, 2019
• The phenomenal photography of Iason Athanasiadis October 13, 2019
• In Yiddish: “Living like God in Odessa” October 11, 2019
• “Fucking do it Erdoğan” — Right on Bobby! Totally with you… October 11, 2019
• Yikes! A challenge to my loyalties: Tsitsipas beats Djoković in Shanghai October 11, 2019
• Another idiot: Orhan Pamuk: we have to accept democracy even if people vote to abolish it October 11, 2019
• Erdoğan: no wonder they adore him October 11, 2019
• “Why this gift to Turkey would simultaneously be a gift to Russia?” October 10, 2019
• Byz on dhimmis in Istanbul October 10, 2019
• The Queen Mother m*l*k* — at a Beatles concert October 9, 2019
• Finally, a picture of Clara Lemlich October 9, 2019
• From the Forward — yes, it’s still published — Bernie Sanders’ Jewishness October 9, 2019
• P.S. The Beatles October 9, 2019
• #MeToos forgot to shame the Beatles October 9, 2019
• A reader writes: “Wonderful work on your blog” – Tarlabaşı series October 8, 2019
• Kol Nidre October 8, 2019
• Litvaks and Galizianers II October 8, 2019