A Canadian company is cyanide gold mining in Turkey. They destroyed thousand year old forests while the poison spills everywhere. They just get a hand slap and get another license all the time.
Canadian mining companies are basically the worst of the worst. Completely psychopathic behavior, at least from what I know about their operations in the African continent. Not that canadians care, because it's far away and we just don't like talking about resource extraction in general. That our entire economy is extremely heavily dependant on oil and mining (here and abroad) might ruin the illusion for most of us here.
Why is still the real narrative for this ban is still not around the children on that platform. I can't for the life of mine understand why everybody is pulling their own agenda while the real reason for that ban is dragged under the rag. Crazy...
It's true in Turkey. Never seen a toilet without integrated bidet there. Since I moved from there, it became a common reoccurence that colleagues returning from toilet smelling poo. Yikes...
Highly out of context, but, another Turkish researcher outside Turkey, probably escaping Islamist government that's effing up Turkey, and coming up with ground breaking innovations. A a Turk, don't know if I should be thankful or mad as hell.
You can be both. You can be thankful that opportunities exist for them to practice their craft and bring things into the world to make it better. You can also be mad that they couldn't do it at home because of the regime which really does do ridiculous things like set monetary interest rates ignoring that it's still connected to the international financial system.
Well, we are taking about an empire that gave birth to 60 countries. Euro is 44 countries. USA is 50 states. I am afraid many other languages were also lost in that amount of time ottomans were in power.
I beg your pardon for the discordance on a tiny detail but "gave birth to 60 countries" is exactly the kind of arrogant imperial mindset behind "ottoman empire" or any other empire for that matter. Those nations existed before such empire, they were a combination of multiple things just loosely held together (if held together at all of course), including their languages, which has a heavy weight in national identities formation. The empire was simply comprised of those already existing nations, it did not give birth to anything.
I agree up to a point: There were peoples with their distinct cultures that the Ottomans conquered, the most prominent example being the Balkans. However, "nation" is an 18th/19th century idea. The notion that distinct peoples should form distinct and independent units of state called nations was no driving force in the medieval and early modern period, in which we see the forming of multi-national empires. I think you refer to this as well, I just wouldn't use the word 'nation' in the same way.
