Articles by Engin Kurtay and IIRSS
A true academic work is a besetting output. It mustn’t gratify anyone. This peskiness of the academic work is what distinguishes it from what it is scholastic. By the same respect, a Real artwork too, it is analogous to the academic: a true art satirizes the status quo order and it’s beneficiaries while the scholastic presentment pleases them.
——————💪—————— Continue reading “The Finesse in Design by Nadezhda Kopylova: How to read a book cover — Engin Kurtay”
Saudi authorities did not allow the grotesque show that the two Turkish teams planned and put into action at the last minute on the playground. The clubs’ executives roared exhibiting more Ataturkism, the match was cancelled and the players returned home. The chorus of short-smart writers and “intellectuals” who consider it wise to oppose everything immediately began singing their usual song: Continue reading “Football provocation by the so-called Kemalists — Engin Kurtay”
Suudi yetkililer, iki Türk takımının oyun sahasında planladıkları ve son dakika devreye soktukları grotesk gösteriye izin vermedi. Kulüpler ekstra Atatürkçü kesildi, esti gürledi, maç ertelendi ve futbolcular yurda geri döndü. Kısa akıllı, her şeye muhalif olmayı bilgelik sayan yazar çizer korosu hemen aldı sazı eline: Continue reading “Sözde Atatürkçülerin futbol provokasyonu — Engin Kurtay”
So far the Russian media failed to specify the logic behind the cancellation of the permission to use the Bulgarian airspace by the Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s plane.
Continue reading “Mariya against Maria: the female grudgery as the principal trigger for Russophobia — Engin Kurtay”
We would never judge, of course, someone by his\her anchestor’s criminal records. No matter how their “blood” is related, they’re different individuals. Their acts and their thoughts are assented as disconnected from each others.
But what if the descendant of a criminal appropriates and even celebrates this ancestor —not in his/her own private conversations but— in Public, in media? Continue reading “Let’s study how Chrystia Freeland avoids talking on her grandpa’s Krakivski Visti — Engin Kurtay”
Around mid-October 2022 news reported that two idiots committed suicide in Yerevan — but be careful, no news defined them as “idiots”. It’s us, who define them as “idiots”. No one else!
But what it is exactly the “idiocy” here?
It’s certainly NOT in the fact that the suiciders were gays, as many other idiots (some even among our readers) would hastily love grabbing the assertion that we were homophobic and that’s why we call them “idiots”. Fortunately not all gays are LGBTQ+ indoctrinated and the smartest ones are even against to it — against being politically manipulated by dirty LGBTQ+ agendas. Continue reading “They are “victims”, therefore they are tolerable to be Nazis! — Engin Kurtay”
Пусть не в таких масштабах, как это пропагандируют западные медиа, но все же многие жители РФ сейчас второпях стремятся пересечь границы страны, сбегая от частичной мобилизации, объявленой на днях Кремлем.
Но осознают ли они, откуда они пытаются бежать и во что впутываются на самом деле?
Давайте для начала разберём очень хорошую статью Эргина Йлдызоглу (турецкий писатель и аналитик, проживающий в Лондоне), которую он недавно, 12 сентября 2022 г. опубликовал в газете Джумхуриет (Cumhuriyet newspaper): Continue reading “Побег из страны чудес в никчемное ничто — Энгин Куртай”
For Roger Waters to pass the-adorno-test he must make a stronger call, that is a call to start a march (not a “parade”) to Belmarsh Jail for freeing Assange. Continue reading “Tear down the wall ! — Pink Floyd”
The tricky thing here is that the discrepancy between the “idea” and the practical interpassivity* doesn’t originate from some illiteracy or lack of acknowledgment. As the common belief that Assange must be freed is right and just, the common uncertainty that this belief (that he must be freed) is common is also right and sound — the former is undisputably right as a matter of historical and universal justice (an ethical necessity) and the latter is also sound because it’s pretty likely that in a society there are often some (as Priti Patel and/or as the Betty-the-Queen) who may not believe so or who have normalized not acting in line with their own beliefs. Continue reading “A risky reconnaissance operation into the British roge state territory — Engin Kurtay”
— Birleşik Krallık’a ziyaretinizin sebebi nedir?
— Onu almaya geldim!
— Kimi?
— Yoldaş Julian Assange.
Pasaport polisinin o andaki suratını izlemek benim için dünyanın en büyük keyfiydi. Continue reading “Onu almaya geldim! — Engin Kurtay”
— 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”
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”
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”
Istanbul Institute of
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*”
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”
Istanbul Institute of
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”
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Russian and Sovietic Studies
Not: Bu çalışma ilk olarak Sendika.org’da yayımlanmıştır.
Ticari bakımdan fiyasko olan bir film neden bu kadar büyük bir bütçeyle desteklendi? Halkın filme ilgisizliği, melezleşme sürecinde geçmiş yıllara göre artık gündemin alt sıralarına düşmüş olan yerli X beyaz ayrımı ve ayrımcılığının gündemin yeniden üst sıralarına taşınmasına karşı içten içe bir tepki miydi?
Modern-post-modern dünyada, kaynağını Troçki’nin sanat doktrininden alan sanat-siyaset ilişkisi de en az sanat-piyasa ilişkisi kadar yozdur. Troçki sanatta her türlü formalizmi reddeder. Sanat eğitimine, sanatta kurumsallaşmaya, devlet aygıtının sanatçıyı himayesine karşıdır. Continue reading “‘Roma’ filminin otopsisi: Alfonso Cuaron kendi başyapıtını neden kötüledi? – Ali Polat, Engin Kurtay”