{"id":2599,"date":"2015-02-19T17:40:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T16:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:52:17","slug":"sendeanlat-oezgecanaslan-thursday-19-february-2015_radio-three-terzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/?p=2599","title":{"rendered":"#sendeanlat #OezgecanAslan Thursday 19. February 2015_Radio Three Terzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #1e83e0;\"><a style=\"color: #1e83e0;\" title=\"Performance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/?p=2489#terzi\">Radio Three Terzi<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #1e83e0;\">#1e83e0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/119242764\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><b>Another way of telling the story, A Parallel Text: Radio Gugu<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #008080;\">As I got into Atat\u00fcrk Istanbul International Airport during the month of Ramadan, the hajj pilgrims on the flight from the EuroAirport in Mulhouse to Istanbul had already saved their complementary on-flight meals past sundown in paper bags and quickly gulped down the water and eaten a dry piece of white bread rolls just before landing. The hajj travel agents were all swarthy looking males in their fifties wearing bright neon vests, like street construction workers, with the large emblems of their religious travel agency on their backs. All the female hajj pilgrims wore the same white or rose-colored gowns and headscarves beaming with anticipation and idly chatting amongst each other but in a low voice. They all had an air of dignity about themselves amidst the airport shuffle at customs, as if floating in midair hovering by the body scanners, while I had to prevent my pants from falling down to my knees without my belt-buckle which was sitting on the conveyor belt thru the X-ray machine.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #008080;\">I languidly strolled into the duty-free shop a few minutes later in order to get the bottle of liquor as I had been advised early on in my travel arrangements by my fellow peers at home. I first couldn\u2019t decide on what to get at all, because I usually don\u2019t take to drinking alcoholic beverages, due to my emotional predisposition you could add. Shortly thereafter, with my backpack, hand luggage, and slipping\u00a0a casually looking duty-free shopping bag thru the counter,I was met at the custom\u2019s exit by a young lad whose name\u00a0I unfortunately don\u2019t remember, but who was sent to give me a lift to the hotel by cab. It was Saturday evening past nine o\u2019clock and the streets to the center of Istanbul along the Marmara Sea coastline were stuck with heavy traffic. The temperature outside was humid even at night and all along the port, people were lounging by the tens of thousands on the nearby dirt-brown lawns at night out barbecuing. The ride almost took us two hours and was accompanied by frequent honking, shouting out the window all the while I was trying to memorize counting to ten in turkish by heart with the aid of my driver, bir, iki, \u00fc\u00e7, d\u00f6rt, be\u015f, alt\u0131, \u2026 because that was about the only way of making conversation, since save for saying nas\u0131ls\u0131n, afiyet olsun or nekadar, my Turkish is literally non-existent and my driver\u2019s English was fair enough to exchange cordial bits of information, like where are you from, what do you do\u2026, etc., none of which I remembered in the meantime, but the first four digits of the turkish numbers, followed by khamsa, sitta, sab\u2019a, thamania, tiss\u2019a, \u2019ashra and getting it all mixed up.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Later during my week-long stay in Sinop, I should befriend a young butch looking queer around the age of 25, with short blond hair and a light olive complexion with a waxy sheen to it, which made her look slightly feverish and who was dishing out meals at a family-owned business, squeezed into a side corner of the main street leading through Sinop, that served lentil soup and other homemade\u00a0dishes from the Black Sea. Working while fasting, on 14-hour shifts without a sip of water to drink, seven days a week. After nightfall, she\u2019d occasionally come over to my table and light a cigarette, in moments when the patron was absent from the place, or just wasn\u2019t looking. I liked her right away for both her boisterous yet to the same extent timid attitude towards her predominantly male clients at the restaurant. I invited her to join me for the daily evening film screenings at the Sinopale headquarters after her shift. After a while into silently observing the movies and smoking sitting on a bench side-by-side, she insisted I stay at her place overnight. Her family was living in a town about a day\u2019s travel by bus from Sinop. They were peasants and that week she was due to go help them with their crops during the Ramadan season. She told me that her girlfriend was an obese girl from Istanbul whom she had been secretly dating. Night after night over the Internet she always had to call her on time.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #008080;\">She lived in a place of her own, a three-room flat whose rent was exorbitantly more expensive than my own apartment back home, almost twice as much rent but had little comfort to speak of, not to mention the crooked floors at a steep slant from the entrance down in, with a low ceiling and four battered but ample looking divans in the otherwise naked living room, save for a large poster of the Eiffel Tower\u00a0in Paris to one corner, a heap of dirty laundry to the other and an ironing board. As I flapped myself onto one of the sofas, she kept shouting at her Canary bird in a small plastic bird\u2019s cage, while going back and forth to the kitchen to brew some turkish tea in two pots and telling the bird to shut up and stop hating her so much. She then came back to the living room, asking me to undress and squeeze myself into tight lilac satin pajama pants of hers and a T-Shirt in bright pink.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Feeling both frisky at that moment and slightly uncomfortable at the risk of making a complete embarrassment of myself over cheating on my girlfriend, I obliged and even agreed to let her take pictures of me with my camera, all to her exasperated bemusement, like the young flower vendor covetously careening as Mr. and Mrs. Tavernier take pictures with her pocket camera on a weekend night out in a motel room in the countryside, silly drunk on champagne with a wealthy German tourist and his siren blond wife half his age, that she and her boyfriend posing as a war veteran, had sportively befriended over a car race between the German Silvery Roadster Mercedes with wing doors and a stolen American Packard Limousine driving down the highway full speed at 100 miles an hour, while Jeanne Moreau as Florence Carala, the spoiled rich but desperate wife of an industrial arms dealer, was pacing restlessly up and down the neon-lit caf\u00e9s, bar rooms, arcades and shopping windows of the boulevards of nightly Paris, in search of her lover stuck up an elevator shaft, in Louis Malle\u2019s \u201cAscenseur pour l\u2019Echafaud\u201d, France 1958.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Please Visit:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"tags\" style=\"color: #33cccc;\"><a style=\"color: #33cccc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corner-college.com\/Archiv\/2\">Ausstellung<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"> <span class=\"title\" style=\"color: #000080;\">Collecting the Future<br \/>\n2014\u20132006\u20132016<br \/>\nA Sinopale Exhibition<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"author\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><a style=\"color: #ff00ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corner-college.com\/Kollaborateure\/447\">Corner College Collective<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #808000;\">Curated by<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><a style=\"color: #00ccff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corner-college.com\/Kollaborateure\/457\">T. Melih G\u00f6rg\u00fcn<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #808000;\">and<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">co-curated by<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corner-college.com\/Kollaborateure\/441\">\u00a0Dimitrina<\/a>\u00a0Sevova<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">from Friday 13.February until Friday 13.March 2015<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">at Corner College, Kochstrasse 1, 8004 Zurich<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Reflections on a short Note: In Light of the latest cases made public in the media, of the gruesome and horrific, often deadly violence and hate crimes against women in post-developing, &#8222;still&#8220; non-European countries and the concurrent flaring up of civil demonstrations and protests in Turkey by Women&#8217;s Rights associations, movements and advocates, I&#8217;d like to make mention, that from a Eurocentric point of view of being a white, male heterosexual, the violence against women is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not solely<\/span>\u00a0the problem of a mostly muslimic or oriental other, but is structurally implicit in the dominant hegemonic view of the Western Male Gaze towards our sisters of Color as wel<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">l. So whereas the plight of women in predominantly muslimic countries like Turkey are largely ineffable by our &#8222;westernized, central-European standarts of sexual liberation&#8220; and the state of affairs by the patriarchical, male-dominated governments of Turkey is lamentable enough in regards to women&#8217;s rights, let alone the vindictiveness of the hate crimes themselves, Europe is no exemption to the cause and effect, because economically speaking, Europe or &#8222;the West&#8220; thrives on these mysoginistic politics of countries such as Erdogan&#8217;s Turkey or Egypt under Al-Sissi&#8217;s Military Junta parading as Democrazy and it is futile to blame it on Religious indoctrination alone. The White Male Gaze is part of the rule of exploitation and structural violence against women and therefore\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we are not<\/span> exempt by laying blame on the civic &#8222;backwardness&#8220; of an oriental other, but exactly the opposite is true, we profit. My prosperity, my sense of safety as a Swiss or European citizen is bought in cold blooded murder.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140726_Istiklal_Neuer_Raum_MG_5381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140726_Istiklal_Neuer_Raum_MG_5381.jpg\" alt=\"140726_Istiklal_Neuer_Raum_MG_5381\" width=\"624\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140726_Istiklal_Neuer_Raum_MG_5381.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/140726_Istiklal_Neuer_Raum_MG_5381-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"columns two-a\">\n<div class=\"column first\">\n<div class=\"statusbanner\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #dc2261;\">Recommended link to article:<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"columns two-b\">\n<div class=\"column ltr\">\n<h1 class=\"item-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #2ad46b;\"><a style=\"color: #2ad46b;\" title=\"Permanent Link To: In Memory of Ozgecan Aslan: Sexual Violence and the Juridical System in Turkey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jadaliyya.com\/pages\/index\/20876\/in-memory-of-ozgecan-aslan_sexual-violence-and-the\">In Memory of Ozgecan Aslan: Sexual Violence and the Juridical System in Turkey<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #2ad46b;\">by Elif Sari<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Three Terzi #1e83e0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,18],"tags":[54,30,27,29,52,44,43,35],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-three-terzi-sinopale-5-2014","category-kalamtiyy-hora","tag-antagonism","tag-konflikt","tag-kosmopolitische-illusion","tag-macht","tag-micropolitical","tag-restbild","tag-schlagbild","tag-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2616,"href":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wegorythm.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}