By Dr. Doğu Perinçek, Chairman of Vatan Party (Türkiye) The world is discussing the issues raised by migrations from Asia and Africa to Europe and North America. Recently, the uprisings mostly of young people of African origin in France further highlighted the issue. The basis and history of the migration issue On the first hand, we can determine that these ...
The capital city of France keeps on burning. Surely, there are many reasons for this fire that started in the suburbs and spread to the center of Paris. Social injustice, police brutality, integration problems of migrant children, lack of education, exclusion, harsh conditions in the suburbs, economic crisis, etc. The most important reason, maybe the root cause, dates back 400 ...
When the French cinema historian Georges Sadoul said, “After the invention of the cinema, in 1960, there is to my knowledge not a single true feature length African film production – acted, photographed, written, conceived, edited, etc. by Africans and in an African language.” This had been said almost 65 years after the beginning of the history of the seventh ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In the last part, I had argued that the public letter among others signed by French Generals on duty and retired was directed against the French government, taking a racist and anti-islamic stance, targeting the Muslims living in France and defending the country’s imperialist expansionist policies. The Turkish press reported on the event with headlines such ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen My first thought on reading the French military officers’ declaration published on April 21st in the extreme right-wing, xenophobe, islamophobic and racist magazine Valeurs Actuelle was: there is nothing here worth being analyzed. In summary, they were saying in a racist discourse that there was not enough fight against Islamism, thus provoking politically. The French government ...
By Andre Fields In The Beginning Imagine growing up in a world where heritage defines almost everything about who you are. American’s won’t have a hard time with this, because this is the world we live in today. Now imagine that you and almost an entire nationality of people have no idea what their heritage even is. This is the ...
As 2019 remains fresh in living memory, a year of much U.S. backed violence around the world, one might say Washington is receiving a gargantuan dose of Karma considering the chaos that has so quickly engulfed its country. The participants of America’s most recent wave of insurrection, violent and peaceful, are not wreaking havoc and meeting with foreign imperialist leaders ...
‘Black Lives Matter’ protests continue in the United States over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who was killed after he was pinned down by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25, 2020. Not long after, another black man, Rayshard Brooks, 27, was shot dead by an officer, adding more fuel to the fire ...
I was only 21 back in 1979. The most famous song at that time was “Another Brick in the Wall” by the British rock group Pink Floyd, an anthem which swept the world with its explicit defiance of the British educational system. It was a powerful song that described teachers as “just another brick in the wall” and urged children ...
The US, the main sponsor of color revolutions and wars around the world, found itself in its own “American spring” after the murder of African-American George Floyd, who was suffocated by a white policeman. As a result, race issues are still at the top of the political agenda four hundred years after the first slave ships arrived on the continent’s ...