Cem Ryan
James (Cem) Ryan is a writer living in Istanbul, Turkey. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he holds a Ph.D. in literature. His historical novel, Natural Affinities, about New York City during World War I, was published in 2004 by (www.trafford.com/robots/03-1783.html).
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MEN IN MASQUERADE
Turkish people! What kind of a social conscience do you have? To silently sit while events of Nazi proportions are being done to the Syrian people by your government? It seems inconceivable that you can fill the streets for Fenerbahçe football but not even mumble a care about what your tax money is doing to…
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UNITED WE WEEP, DIVIDED WE SLEEP
So who will care? Care enough to act, to really act? To stand up and say that this is enough. That the people will no longer be governed by a corrupt political process. Nor by numbskull, repetitive political opposition parties nor by America’s CIA gangsters? Is that too much to ask?
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RECEP DECEIT ERDOĞAN
In your repetition, in your ranting, you bore me immensely and to tears. Yet in your supernatural excess, you never fail to astonish. Now a hunted man, who curses stars for giving light to darkness, you cannot control your rotting tongue.
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THE SICK JOKE
Oh fabulous farce, the art of the improbable, the exaggerated, the ludicrous, the bizarre, the brazen and often the stupid, the essence of what Turks once called democracy, a word they dare not now pronounce. Still, aren’t we all so lucky to be living in Turkey? Sure we are. Turkey, the land of politicians that…
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KILLERS! My Last Letter to Obama
20 December 2013 The Honorable Barack H. Obama President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 USA Dear […]
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FOR GOD’S SAKE STOP SAYING “INSHALLAH”
Haven’t you learned anything yet, you victims of Islamo-fascism? You victims of high treason. You victims of occupation by foreign powers. Haven’t you learned that […]