Articles by Engin Kurtay and IIRSS
— What is the purpose of your visit to United Kingdom?
— I came to take him out!
— Who?
— Comrade Julian Assange
That moment of perplexity, seeing the face of the port police officer was my biggest pleasure. Continue reading “I came to take him out! — Engin Kurtay”
One should really be endowed by an heroine lordly spirit for putting an ultimate wedge to the extradition of Assange,
This wedge could be put either by gathering a brave group of British people ready to fight and storm the Belmarsh Jail (which is located 18 km away from the center of London, where people could first gather in Trafalgar Square and start a march —but definitely not a parade— towards Belmarsh) to free Assange by also possibly completely turning down and burning the Belmarsh Jail (as it was previously done with Bastille, a little while ago, in Paris)… Or alternately, just by (refraining from) putting a signature by the politician in charge, that is, by Priti Patel. Continue reading “Priti Patel: conformism, opportunism, Machiavellianism — Engin Kurtay”
(*) The bloody-ass politics is a recently developed technical term in Political Science by Istanbul Institute of Russian and Sovietic Studies (IIRSS). It designates the scholastic fabrication of victimization discourses by the feminist and LGBTQ+ intelligentsia. The term is used in accordance with the postulate that victimization discourses are the typical sine-qua-non fundamentals for fascist self-justifications.
The pic above shows the protest of a feminist activist in Cannes Film Festival in 2022 Spring. The rationale of her protest is to ass-ociate the female victimization (the concept of ‘rape’) with the situation of Ukraine against Russia. Our upcoming studies will focus on how the victimization logic is constitutive for formenting interpassivity against the neo-nazism. Continue reading “The rise of NATO bloody ass* politics in Sweden by the assassination of Olof Palme through the persecution of Julian Assange — Engin Kurtay”
We previously studied the complications of “playing with Other’s toy” by showing the similarities between the Ukrainian kids’ playing with the plush Javelin toys and the UkroNazis’ playing with the real Javelin missile toys.
Now we will study a similar case:
The unbearable lightness of defending the independence of Ukraine by the Ukrainians who well fulfilled their fantasies by having already moved to the West…
The similarity between the two cases is that, while in both cases they allegedly struggle for their independence, they pathetically end up in—dependence by mind and soul. Continue reading “The joy of shifting between middle finger and bloody ass — Engin Kurtay”
The judges in the UK, dealing with the Assange Case,
We warned you:
You should stop Show Trial, you should free Julian Assange.
You did the wrong thing.
Your wrongdoing has three consequences:
The first one is a very good one: Thanks to you that Julian Assange’s monument will be erected even higher over your infamy.
The second one is bad for your country but good for the world: you confirmed the rogue state status of the UK.
The third one is bad for you: you confirmed that you are not “judges” but you are the tiny puppets of the transatlantic imperialist cooperation.
We wish you soon meeting your bandit buddies, Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin:
Question : When a toy functions as an object of ideology?
Answer : It’s exactly when the Other outsources its own beliefs being run through the mediation of an object-toy.
The Javelin-Toy in Ukraine is a perfect examplary for this formula. Playing with it encapsulates and perpetuates all sorts of eclectic associations for Westernization, independence, nationalism, freedom, democracy and so on… but, there is a problem : it’s Other’s Toy and it’s given to them to perpetuate Other’s beliefs.
Therefore it’s not an accidental fact that thousands of these toys have already been captured by the Russian Army.
One’s true belief however is never manifested via a toy. It is manifested through another human, a compatriot’s/comrade’s authentic action :
People all around the world are more aware of the Western media orchestrated lies, especially after a bulky history of false-flag massacres of civilians since 10 years in Syria.
Do the occurrences of false-flag stagings in Syria and in Bucha look similar by coincidence? Or are they somehow connected to each other by method, experience and by their fabricators?
We hope one day in future the investigative journalism will unearth it, if there is such a connectivity — should Bill Browder, Kati Piri and their team who used to get nested in South Cyprus kindly guide them. Unfortunately the founder of White Helmets, the MI6 spy James Gustaf Edward Le Mesurier died. Therefore he cannot contribute to this great job for humanity. And the buffoon “philosopher” Bernard-Henri Levy did not die in Mariupol —as the Ukrainian channels reported for fabricating a “hero” out of a scoundrel. He is seen in Kiev after Odessa. There is reason to believe that he is the screenwriter of bloody provocations by Ukrainian Nazis.
Nevertheless, revealing these connections is a future project. Continue reading “The sequence of events rolling into the false-flag massacre in Bucha — Engin Kurtay”
The US Pentagon funded bio-weapon labs were already laid bare in the military operation in Ukraine.
And today:
… a scandalous technical inquiry by Ukraine to the manufacturer of the unmanned aerial vehicles has been unearthed.
Pay attention to the ITEM 9 in the letter.
You will pay for it! But not on the field. On the Court !
It’s a common fact that the Western Media prioritizes the Ukrainian war propaganda.
However there are exceptional situations when the Western Media carefully censors the Ukrainian broadcasting.
This video hereunder is shot and spread by Ukrainian soldiers — as a revenge, upon their defeated counter-offensive around Kharkov. And it is carefully censored by the Western Media :
The immediate reaction of our audiences is “Oh, this is war, war is hideous!“.
But it shouldn’t be that simple. We should ask how one should deal with this hideousness. Continue reading and watch how the surrendered Ukrainian soldiers are treated according to the Geneva Convention: Continue reading “Here is when the Western Media censors an Ukrainian broadcasting! — Engin Kurtay”
Two declarations denouncing the Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, both, allegedly belonging to Russian academics, have recently (beginning from the March 8, 2022 to our knowledge) been made circulated among the scholars affiliated to NATO academic-Gladio.
We will not indicate the specific personages and the name of the University, with whom and where this incident took place. The scholars who got engaged in this fraudulent dissemination activity have already been acknowledged by the nature of their involvement. Continue reading “Disseminating fake declarations on behalf of Russian scholars — Engin Kurtay”
“Mister Bernard-Henri Lévy, do you know The War has started in 2014?”
“Mister Bernard-Henri Lévy, War is not statistics!”
And now you are in Odessa, Mister BHL… But you are a loser.
Continue reading “Mister BHL, War is Not Statistics! — Anne-Laure Bonnel”
Note: This article was received from Prof Slavoj Žižek upon our publishing of the previous article “From Sartre to Zizek, freedom or Bashi-Bazouklouk — Engin Kurtay“. Professor has mentioned that he cut off all links with RT.
After the Russian attack on Ukraine, I was yet again ashamed of being a citizen of Slovenia. The Slovene government immediately proclaimed that it is ready to receive thousands of Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russian occupation… OK, but when Afghanistan fell to Taliban, this same government announced that Slovenia is not ready to receive any refugees from there – the justification was that instead of escaping, people should stay there and fight Taliban with guns. Along the same lines, a couple of months ago when thousands of refugees from Asia tried to enter Poland from Belarus, Slovene government offered Poland military help, claiming that Europe is under attack there. So there are obviously two species of refugees, “ours” (European), i.e., “real refugees,” and the Third World ones who don’t deserve our hospitality. Continue reading “Ukraine and The Third World — Prof Slavoj Žižek”
“Everywhere, on billboards, in the newspapers, on the screen, we encountered the revolting and insipid picture of ourselves that our oppressors wanted us to accept. And, because of all this, we were free. Because the Nazi venom seeped even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest. Because an all-powerful police tried to force us to hold our tongues, every word took on the value of a declaration of principles. Because we were hunted down, every one of our gestures had the weight of a solemn commitment.” Continue reading “From Sartre to Zizek, freedom or Bashi-Bazouklouk¹ — Engin Kurtay”
Jan Hus was killed on 6th of July 1415. Paradoxically, Jan Hus was the translator and a defender of an English theology professor: John Wycliffe. As a surprising fact of Historical dialectics, the 15th century Britain was more advanced than the Continent.
Jan Hus and similar heroic personages opened the way to modern philosophy, critical thinking, freedom of speech, to form the distinct political and legal norms of our contemporary civilization.
You, the Judges compounding the “Supreme” Court of the UK, you are supposed to be the products of this six-century-long philosophical and societal evolution.
You are not free to deny the legacy of this six hundred years. Your “judiciary independence” is the product of this legacy.
J’accuse! You did wrong.
But you will have a second chance to decide whether you are “Supreme” or the tiny pathetic puppets of the transatlantic imperialist cooperation. Julian Assange will re-appeal.
If you do the wrong thing, your injustice will match the logic of the inquisition of the dark ages.
The monument of Julian Assange will be erected in any case. This is unavoidable and will not be related to any decision of yours.
The only difference if you will do the wrong is that it will be erected over your infamy.
And a few words to your Queen (the throne throng are not my compeer, therefore it’s you who shall forward my words to her):
Despite her age she looks still lucid enough to remember the words of De Gaulle for Sartre:
“On ne met pas Voltaire à Bastille, sinon le peuple le détruiront sur nos têtes“.
I wish you all doing a good job.
Engin Kurtay
Prof Slavoj Zizek
Sahte-eşitlikçi mantığı en uç noktasına doğru ilerletmeyi şu örnekle deneyelim: toplumda bazı bireylerin diğerlerine göre cinsel anlamda daha çekici oldukları acı bir gerçektir. Öyleyse, bir bireyin diğerine göre hangi adil kıstaslara göre daha çekici olduğunu kestiremeyeceğimizden, daha çekici olanları aşağı bastırarak onların keyiflerini örseleyecek yeni yöntemler mi icad etmemiz gerekiyor? Cinsellik, en korkunç, en başedilmez eşitsizlik alanlarından biridir… Herkese eşit keyif dağıtmak ise sahte-eşitlikçi mantığın nihai fantezisidir. Continue reading “‘Farkındalık yaratmak’ ile hakiki uyanış arasındaki ayrım – Prof Slavoj Zizek”
Our Institute’s (Istanbul Institute of Russian and Sovietic Studies (IIRSS)) legendary mentor Prof-The-Redskin has just given new pics as for the celebration of his previous birthday (14th of November). Continue reading ““Male body is like a wine!…” — Prof-The-Redskin”
Istanbul Institute of
Russian and Sovietic Studies
The mass gathering scene of the political action film by James McTeigue, V for Vendetta (2005) reminds us the October (1928) of Sergei Eisenstein! However, there is a slight but crucial difference: the crowd in the film heads towards the Parliament.
Not to the Buckingham Palace! …
And, neither any audience nor any cocky film analyst have so far questioned what could have been going on in the Buckingham Palace during those moments of blowing the Parliament up. The film never shows anything related to the Royal Order. It successfully makes the audiences to forget the fact that there actually exists a kind of centralized power in Britain. Continue reading “Inessa Armand versus Alexey Shmakov – Engin Kurtay, Ali Polat”
Professor Zizek’s paradox is due to a false contradiction that can exchange their roles with each other like any other paradox:
A) Those who can give up their own identity and have the privilege of talking about the victimization of the victims: We call this group WASP: the initials of white; Anglo Saxon; Protestant. Male is often added to it too: WASP+male.
B) Those who can declare their own identities without being stamped as fascist: This group includes all skin colors and ethnicities other than WASP. We call this group non-WASP. However, this group is not uniform in itself. They position themselves in a spectrum of different degrees of grievances and victimizations: the farther you are from WASP, the more authentic victims you are. For example, an Afro American is more underprivileged than a “brown” (mixed blood); a Bengali is more underprivileged than a Chinese; a Chinese is more than an Italian; a muslim is more than a buddhist; a buddhist is more than a catholic; a transsexual is more than a homosexual; a lesbian woman is more than a straight woman … and they altogether are victims of the WASP+male. Continue reading “Why Kamala Harris was destined to fail? – The paradoxes of anti-WASP left – Engin Kurtay, Ali Polat”
Profesör Zizek’in paradoksu, her paradoks gibi birbiriyle rollerini değiş tokuş edebilen sahte bir çelişkiden kaynaklıdır:
A) Kendi kimliklerinden vazgeçerek mahrumların mağduriyeti üzerine konuşma ayrıcalığına sahip olabilenler: Bu gruba WASP diyoruz: beyaz (white); Anglo Saxon; Protestan sözcüklerinin baş harflerinden oluşuyor. Buna “erkek” de eklendiği olur (Bunun Türkiye’deki karşılığının BEST olduğu söyleniyordu: beyaz; sunni, Türk).
B) Faşist damgası yemeden kendi kimliklerini söyleyebilenler: Bu grup ise bunun dışında kalan tüm renklileri ve etnileri kapsıyor. Bu gruba da WASP-olmayanlar diyoruz. Ancak bu grup yeknesak değil. Kendilerini farklı derecelerde bir mağduriyetler spektrumu içinde konumlandırıyorlar: WASP’tan ne kadar uzaklaşırsanız o kadar otantik mağdur oluyorsunuz. Örneğin bir afro-amerikalı bir meleze göre; bir Bengal’li bir Çinli’ye göre; bir melez bir İtalyan’a göre, bir müslüman bir budiste göre; bir budist bir katoliğe göre; bir trans bir eşcinsele göre; bir eşcinsel bir kadına göre daha mağdur… ve toplamda bunların hepsi de WASP+erkek karşısında mağdur… Continue reading “Kamala Harris neden kaybetmeye mahkumdu? – Engin Kurtay, Ali Polat”
Çeviri: Engin Kurtay
Kaynak: İngilizce orijinali Russian Times’ta 20 Nisan 2020 tarihinde yayımlanmıştır.
Covid-19 salgınının dijital seks dünyasına hareketlilik getirdiğine kuşku yok. Öte yandan fiziksel yakınlığın önemini, iki insan arasında yaşanan seksin maneviyatın ön koşulu olduğunu da insanlığa hatırlatmasını umuyorum. Continue reading “Covid-19, maneviyata giden yolun SEKSTEN geçtiğini hatırlatacak mı? – Prof Slavoj Zizek”
Russian Times’ın 28 Mart 2020 08:01 tarihli yayınındaki İngilizce orijinalinden Engin Kurtay tarafından Türkçe’ye Sendika.org için çevrilmiştir.
“Çalışmanın” arka planında ‘para kazanacağım’, ‘tatile gideceğim’ gibi motivasyonlar yok. Çünkü kimse bundan sonra parası olsa bile tatile gidip gidemeyeceğinden emin değil. Dünya algısı, başını sokacak bir evinin olması ve karnını doyuracak yemeğin olmasından ibaret hale geldi. Bunun yanında birilerini sevmek, kollamak ve şu an bunun için yapılması gerekenler öne çıkmış durumda. ‘Daha fazlasına ihtiyacım var’ düşüncesi gerçekdışı hale geldi. Yabancılaşmadan bu kadar arı, saygın yaşam tanımına bundan daha iyi uyacak bir yaşam düşünemiyorum. Salgın geçtikten sonra da bugün edindiğimiz bu alışkanlıkların hiç olmazsa kısmen devam etmesini umuyorum. Continue reading “Covid-19 günlerinde sağ kalma rehberi: basit hazlarınızdan utanmayın, Valhalla Murders izleyin, herşey bir oyunmuş gibi düşünün – Prof Slavoj Zizek”
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Russian and Sovietic Studies
The people of Russia, except few rickety events, remained indifferent to the centenary of the 1917 Revolution and spent the November 7th 2017 like a normal day. According to a survey commissioned by the Communist Party, 58% of the Russian population was unaware of the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution (1).
Whereas Nov. 7th was a holiday celebrated by big ceremonies, during the Soviet era.
The editor of the independent Russian TV channel, documentary filmmaker Mikhail Viktorovich Zygor proclaimed that he was very surprised by the fact that the Russian press remained indifferent to the centenary of October Revolution (2).
The Russian President V. Putin, four days prior to Nov. 7th (in November 3, 2017), said that the October Revolution was a complicated episode of their own history and that these course of events should be treated with respect in an unbiased way (3).
Continue reading “The fantasy universe of Sergei Eisenstein’s ‘October’ – Ali Polat, Engin Kurtay”
* Enstitümüz mentoru, İstanbul Üniversitesi Jeoloji Bölümü öğretim üyesi, Jeolog Prof Dr Şener Üşümezsoy
İstanbul için kıyamet senaryoları bitmiyor. Her yer sarsıntısının ardından bir grup uzman halktaki panik havasını körüklüyor. Diğer yandan Kızılderili’nin 17 Ağustos 1999 Depremi’nden bu yana ısrarla savunduğu “felaket senaryoları temelsizdir!” tezi son dönemde başka uzmanlar tarafından da – çoğunda Kızılderili’ye referans yapma terbiyesi gösterilmeden de olsa – giderek kabul görmekte ve dile getirilmekte. Ancak basında halen propagandası yapılan temelsiz görüşler doğrultusunda kanaat ve tartışmalar sürüyor.
Felsefe eğitiminin temel amacı bilindiği gibi doğru soruları sormayı öğrenmektir. Felsefeci, aldığı bu zehirli eğitimin etkisiyle genellikle kitlelerin ortak inanç ve kanaatlerine saldırma refleksi gösterir. Bunu yaparken de “bilmediği konuya burnunu sokmak” ile suçlandığı çok olur.
Biz de Kızılderili ile yapacağımız bu söyleşide felsefeci refleksiyle hareket edeceğiz, diğer gazetecilerin yapmadığını yapmaya çalışacağız: bir uzmanın savunduğu tezi sadece dinleyip aktarmakla yetinmeyeceğiz, argümanlarını da sorgulayarak onun tezini nasıl savunduğunu anlamaya ve anlaşılır şekilde aktarmaya çalışacağız. Continue reading “Deprem Tartışması: İstanbul için felaket senaryoları neden doğru değil? – Kızılderili*”
Prof Şener Üşümezsoy (Kızılderili) halkın korkularını sömüren felaket tellallarına, deprem rantçılarına bilimsel cevap veriyor. Continue reading “Kızılderili: “Kendi tezlerini kendileri çürütüyor!””
Istanbul Institute of
Russian and Sovietic Studies
The First Workshop for Russian Studies between Boğaziçi University and Lomonosov Moscow State University will be held in Bosphorus University, in Istanbul between 10 to 13th of October 2019 by the hosting of ADK (Atatürkçü Düşünce Kulübü – The Student’s “Atatürk Thought Club“) and by the collaboration of Turkish Historical Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu – TTK).
The project aims to develop academic correspondences, sharing of information and collaboration for mutual production of knowledge between Russian and Turkish scholars in social sciences, particularly in History. This workshop is planned to focuse on topics bringing into discussion the issues that are currently under debate in Russia and -especially – controversial in the mainstream Western left-wing reading of Russian and Soviet history.
Istanbul Institute of
Russian and Sovietic Studies
6 Eylül 2019’da Sendika.org’da Önder Özdemir arkadaşın “Struma gemisinin batışını ve katliamaları seyretmek!” başlıklı bir yazısı yayımlandı. Yazı, II. Dünya Savaşı yıllarında tarafsızlığı koruma çabasındaki İnönü hükümetinin Struma katliamına (24 Şubat 1942) göz yumduğunu, hatta bu katliama neden olduğunu ileri sürüyor. Struma’dan bahsederken I. Dünya Savaşı’ndaki 1915 Ermeni olaylarına, oradan tekrar II. Dünya Savaşı yıllarında devreye sokulan Varlık Vergisi’ne (12 Kasım 1942), oradan da 6-7 Eylül olaylarına (1955) atlıyor.
Bu örnekleri sıraladıktan sonra da buradan hareketle TC’de bir “katliamcı gelenek” bulunduğu yargısına varıyor.
Son olarak da şu dersi çıkarıyor:
“Bu katliamlarla yüzleşilmediği için halk yakın geçmişte Hrant Dink, Sevag Balıkçı cinayetlerine sessiz kaldı” Continue reading “Sol üzerinde etnik siyaset tekeli — Engin Kurtay”
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Russian and Sovietic Studies
Rusya halkı, sağda solda düzenlenen birkaç cılız etkinlik dışında 7 Kasım 2017’yi normal bir gün gibi geçirdi. Komünist partinin yaptırdığı bir ankete göre Rusya halkının %58’i Ekim Devrimi’nin 100. yıldönümünden habersizdi (1).
Oysa Sovyet döneminde 7 Kasım, büyük törenlerin yapıldığı bir tatil günüydü.
Bağımsız Rus Tv kanalının editörü, belgesel film yapımcısı Mikhail Viktorovich Zygar, Rus basınının Ekim Devrimi’ne kayıtsız kalmasına çok şaşırdığını söylemişti (2).
Rusya Devlet Başkanı V. Putin, 7 Kasım’dan dört gün önce (3 Kasım 2017) Ekim Devrimi’nin kendi tarihlerinin karışık bir parçası olduğunu ve bu tarihe tarafsız ve saygılı davranılması gerektiğini söyledi (3). Continue reading “October filminin fantezi evreni – Ali Polat, Engin Kurtay”
Istanbul Institute of
Russian and Sovietic Studies
“Boys climbed on trees, to see what was happening. And they fell down vomitting: they saw it. We suddenly realized that there was a mass massacre that was happening there”
“Before the Nazi occupation of Kiev the housekeepers were known as the spies of the KGB. After the Nazi occupation they all suddenly converted to Nazi spies. One of them was coming to our house and saying to my mother – who was looking as Jewish because she had a big nose – “Madam, you should go to Babi Yar, why don’t you go to Babi Yar?” Continue reading “Babi Yar – 2 – Mass Massacre in Kiev”
Cuaron’un ‘Roma’sından farklı olarak ‘Sibel’ filmindeki kadın dayanışması, terk edilmenin mağduriyeti üzerinden yürüyen bir dayanışma değildir. Sibel bir mağduriyet kısırdöngüsüne takılı kalmaz. Aşkın dolayımı Sibel’i daha da biler. Kadınlığını ‘kaldırarak‘ bireyin öteki birey için yürüttüğü bir mücadeleye dönüştürür; son sahnede köyün ‘sıradan‘ kadınları olanların farkında değilmiş gibi susup işlerine devam ederler, ama olayı hayranlıkla izleyen aralarından ‘sıradışı‘ birini fire vererek…
Not: Bu çalışmamız ilk olarak Sendika.org’da yayımlanmıştır.
Continue reading “Hegelci ‘kaldırma’: ‘Green Book’ ve ‘Sibel’”
“Jim Crow” logic has been carried till today by the liberal left’s ethnic politics:
“You are black, how come that you don’t know how to eat the chicken like a black?”
As the ‘Green Book’ sublates the ethnic problem, the film ‘Sibel’ (2019), directed by Guillaume Giovanetti and Çağla Zencirci, similarly sublates the problem of pseudo-feminism.
The negro Pushkin was more Russian than anyone else in Russia. A real art does not fit in any race, identity or ethnicity. What we call “ethnic music” cannot be an “art”. To install a revolutionary function in art, one has first to lift the whiskey glass away from the piano!
Note: This article has originally been published in Turkish, in Sendika.org
Continue reading “The Hegelian Aufhebung: ‘Green Book’ and ‘Sibel’ – Ali Polat, Engin Kurtay”