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Luxor Capital Group Announces Its Disapproval of CommonWealth REIT's Recently Announced 27 Million Share Issuance
Expresses Support for Corvex Management, LP and Related Fund Management
Feb 26, 2013, 07:48 EST
NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Luxor Capital Group, LP, a New York based investment manager ("Luxor"), beneficially owns and controls in excess of 6.7 million common shares of CommonWealth REIT (NYSE: CWH), or approximately 8.0% of the common shares outstanding. Luxor is releasing the following open letter to the Independent Trustees of CWH:
To the Independent Members of the Board of Trustees:
We write to express our strong support for the 13D filing made on February 26, 2013 by Corvex Management, LP ("Corvex") and Related Fund Management ("Related"). We concur with the authors that there exists a substantial discount between the fair market, net asset value of CommonWealth REIT ("CWH" or the "Company") and the current trading price of the Company's listed stock. This valuation gap exists, in our opinion, due to conflicted management and persistently poor asset allocation decisions by the Board of Trustees, none greater than the recently-proposed 27 million common share offering (the "Offering"). We believe the destruction of shareholder wealth over a period of years is a direct result of an asset aggregating strategy that is the product of competing incentives between shareholders and the external manager, REIT Management and Research LLC ("RMR"). We join Corvex and Related in demanding you cancel the ill-advised Offering and debt repurchase, and we demand you exercise your fiduciary duty to all shareholders and form an Independent Special Committee with an Independent Financial Advisor and Independent Counsel in order to explore the full range of strategic alternatives.
Luxor Capital Group and its affiliates collectively control in excess of 6.7 million shares of CWH, representing greater than 8% of the current common shares outstanding. We would have liked to address our concerns regarding the RMR and CWH conflicts directly with you in a private, less hostile forum, but our request to meet with the Independent Trustees was denied on December 28, 2012 by the Company. We would have preferred to discuss our concerns regarding the Offering with management, but we were denied access to meetings by the underwriters of the proposed Offering at the behest of the Company. We are one of your three largest shareholders, yet management saw to it that we were excluded from a group lunch for the Offering. It seems to us that any shareholder with the opinion that a series of strategic decisions have benefitted RMR to the detriment of CWH is deliberately and actively ignored.
You have now publicly heard that at least 18% of your shareholders do not support the Offering, and we believe that the number opposing it is actually much higher. There is publicly-disclosed interest from credible counterparties to acquire the Company. We implore you to heed the advice of the owners of CWH and cancel this unnecessary and highly dilutive Offering and immediately form an Independent Committee. In the event you fail to cancel the Offering and pursue an independent strategic review, we reserve our right to hire our own Independent Advisor, share the results of that review with all shareholders and, if you will not heed the voice of the largest owners of the Company, pursue legal actions against you and the Non-Independent Trustees.
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General Counsel of Luxor Capital Partners, LP
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Good Newz, Bad Newz: Michael Vick's house to become rehabilitation center for dogs
An animal rescue group says it has been able to raise enough money to make the down payment on Michael Vick's former home in Virginia, which they plan to turn into a center for rescued dogs.
It will be called Good Newz (a play on Vick's Bad Newz Kennels) Rehab Center for Chained and Penned Dogs.
The group Dogs Deserve Better announced on its website it had received an approval for a loan and hopes to close on the Surry County property that served as headquarter's for Vick's dogfighting operation in mid-May.
The group, which has already raised a third of the sale price, is still raising money to pay off the remaining two-thirds — the amount the loan was approved for. They hope to build a fence around the property and start accepting dogs while they raise the money to build the facility, WVEC reported.
Members have previously said say they'd need an estimated $3 million to create the dog center, which would also serve as the new headquarters for the Pennsylvania-based rescue group.
After the forfeit of Vick's five-bedroom, 15-acre property, potential buyers were few — in part because of a down real estate economy, maybe too, though real estate agents played it down, because of the horrors that occured there. Assessed at more than $700,000, the house is being purchased by Dogs Deserve Better for $595,000.
In an interview with Care2, DDB's Tamira Thayne said, "I felt when I was there that the dogs who lost their lives and suffered there welcomed us and were grateful to us for both preserving their memories, continuing the fight against dog abuse, and bringing happiness to a place of such sadness."
DDB announced in February that it had obtained an option to purchase the property, located at 1915 Moonlight Road.
Vick served 21 months of a 23 month sentence in federal prison for bankrolling the dog fighting operation at the property.
DDB plans to build a state of the art dog facility there, with help from volunteers and donations.
Thayne said the group hopes to house, train, and sent to adoptive homes about 500 dogs a year at first, moving up to 1,000 dogs a year. The group will be rehabilitating primarily dogs that been abused and neglected, penned and chained.
"For us, having a standard shelter is not the answer, because we have to be teaching these dogs how to live within the home and family," Thayne told Care 2. "So we want to design a center where they will be trained in a house setting every day, working one on one or in small groups with a human to assess and deal with issues and teach housetraining and people skills."
For information on how to donate, visit the Dogs Deserve Better website.
Posted by John Woestendiek May 3rd, 2011 under Muttsblog.
Tags: abused, bad newz, center, chained, ddb, dogs, dogs deserve better, former home, good newz, headquarters, home, kennels, michael vick, neglected, penned, philadelphia eagles, property, quarterback, rehabilitate, rehabilitation, rescue, shelter, surry county, tamira thayne, vick, virginia
Comment from Robert
Time May 3, 2011 at 7:46 pm
A good story, happy to hear it.
Comment from Anne'n'Spencer
Time May 4, 2011 at 9:37 am
Well, hurrah! I remember building just such a facility in imagination while Ohmidog! was still part of the Baltimore Sun. I'm delighted it's happening. It's a great way to turn evil into good.
Comment from Basic Needs Foundation
Time May 10, 2011 at 9:16 am
Thank you for working so hard for many unwanted dogs. This is the most wonderful news. We do our part too. We have two upcoming spay/neuter events – SpayDay Lake Isabella – on 8/20/2011 and 10/22/2011.


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The conclusion that Hendry never played Ronnie O'Sullivan when they were both at their best is obviously wrong but it's a good tribute to a great champion nonetheless.
9 comments:
- Matt@PSB said...
Spotted this a bit ago myself, nice piece yeah.
Is that conclusion really wrong by the way? To me Hendry at his very, very best was in the early to mid-90's and you said yourself the other day that ROS was at his best in 2000/1. As brilliant as Hendry still was then, I don't think he was quite as good as he was.
- 1:29 pm
- Matt@PSB said...
Then again I guess you have the 2002 World Championship semi when both were stunning...
- 1:31 pm
what about the 1999 semi-final and the 2002 semi-final - and that WASN'T Hendry at his best best!
- 1:32 pm
- Matt@PSB said...
That is true, I guess I interpreted the sentence in the article differently because in terms of when both were generally at their best, they were at different times. But they have met each other and both played brilliantly as well so it depends how you look at it.
- 1:45 pm
- Dave H said...
I see your point, Matt
Hendry went off the boil between 1997-99 but then had a revival
O'Sullivan was just getting to his best then
- 1:48 pm
Interesting article and hitting reality well. Hendry is the greatest player and at peak could consistently produce his best form.
Many, many player have over the years been capable of potting a long red and winning the frame in one go. Hendry stands out as the player who could produce the highest standard week in and week out consistently and consistency wins titles and prooves who is the greatest.
- 2:47 pm
I have closely followed Hendrys career since he was a boy. I'd say he was at his peak 94-96.
- 8:47 pm
Hendry was more consistently brilliant in the period 94-96 but I think his wins over O'Sullivan in 99 and 02 when he was slightly past his peak were his Two greatest performances.
This article is right he is underrated.He is one of the greatest sportsmen that there has ever been.
Even if he never wins another match his legacy is secure.He invented the open,attacking snooker that is so common today.Nobody will ever dominate the game again to the extent that he did.He is the greatest player who has ever lived.
We will never see his like again
- 1:28 pm
I much agree with most of what's already been said about Hendry. Like someone said as well...I've been a huge fan of Hendry's since I first saw him in 1986 or 1987 (cannot remember haha).
I well remember a clash between ROS and Hendry in the world champs way back. After his quarter final ROS said he'd crunch (not a literal quote mind you) Hendry. I stil remember watching that interview and thinking to myself...don't ask for what you cannot handle (back then).
The result: an awesome semi-final in which Hendry showed his battling and breakbuilding qualities, proving to me once more he truly is the greatest snookerplayer ever (to date).
No doubt ROS is a true genius but unlike Davis and Hendry his form is prone to dips. Since his highs are really high, unfortunately so are his lows. What I would give to see a match between Hendry and ROS again, both at their brilliant best.
My word that'd be worth paying a great deal of money for ;)
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Undercover Farming: High Tunnels Extend the Growing Season
There's a thick coat of snow on the ground, but Liz Graznak is harvesting lettuce, spinach, and other vegetables on her central Missouri farm in Jamestown.
Graznak grows certified organic produce at Happy Hollow Farm about a mile southwest of the Missouri River. She extended her growing season into the middle of winter by using a high tunnel, also known as a hoop house.
High tunnels enable horticulture producers to plant earlier in the spring and continue harvesting into or even through the winter, said James Quinn, a University of Missouri Extension horticulture specialist.
Quinn believes high tunnels will become a familiar part of the American agricultural landscape, the 21st-century equivalent of silos and red barns. They are already a common sight in many Asian and European countries.
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Larry McMurtry is perhaps best known for novels like The Last Picture Show, Terms of Endearment and Lonesome Dove; but the author also has a career as a bookseller.
His store, Booked Up, spills across four buildings in his small hometown of Archer City, Texas, and houses nearly half a million rare and used books. But starting this Friday, McMurtry is holding an auction to whittle down that number — by a lot.
He's calling it "The Last Book Sale," and it includes more than 300,000 titles.
"There's 100 books that I picked very hastily that I just thought were appealing books, and they'll be sold individually," McMurtry tells NPR's Renee Montagne. "They're called [The McMurtry 100]."
Some of the titles listed on the McMurtry 100 include a little-known book by Fyodor Dostoevsky's daughter and an early Navajo autobiography. Those not included on the list will be sold in lots.
McMurtry says part of his reason for downsizing is because his current collection has become too big to handle.
"I have a son and a grandson, and they're literate but they're not book people," he says. "And if I died and there [were] 450,000 books to deal with, it would be a real burden."
But the auction also presents a great opportunity for aspiring booksellers.
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So in a way, McMurtry says, the auction is a way for him to give back to the industry he fell in love with all those years ago.
"I'd like for the American antiquarian book trade to stay vital and to stay energetic," he says, "and pouring some books into it is a good way to help, it seems to me."
Larry McMurtry is downsizing. The prolific writer whose novels include, "Lonesome Dove," "Terms of Endearment," and "The Last Picture Show," also has another life as a bookseller. The book store he's long had in his tiny Texas hometown spills across four buildings, nearly half a million titles, from an early Navajo autobiography to Elmore Leonard's first book. And this Friday, Larry McMurtry is holding a two-day auction to whittle down that number by a lot. He's calling it The Last Book Sale. We rang him up there in Archer City to find out more.
Good morning.
LARRY MCMURTRY: Good morning.
MONTAGNE: Why don't we just start with a simple number? How many books are you selling in this auction?
MCMURTRY: Three hundred thousand-plus. I don't know if it's quite 350,000. It might be. It's a lot of books.
MONTAGNE: And how does it work? I mean, I gather the books are not being sold - one can't pick a title. They're being sold in lots.
MCMURTRY: No. There's 100 books that I picked very hastily that I just thought were appealing books, and they'll be sold individually. They're called McMurtry's 100. We try to have interesting books and appealing books. We are downsizing simply because we have really too many books for us to handle. And I did it because I have heirs. I have a son and a grandson, and they're literate, but they're not book people. And if I died and there was 450,000 books to deal with, it would be a real burden.
MONTAGNE: Well, though, beyond trying to help out your son and your grandson, this sounds like it would be so wonderful for book lovers.
MCMURTRY: Well, it is. It's a great chance. I attended an action like this 41 years ago in D.C. and that's how I got my start, with about 1,500 books we bought at this auction. It's a great chance for anyone who wants to be in the book trade, any young dealers. And we've already had a couple of young dealers show up. It's a wonderful, wonderful chance to get a stock.
It's a kind of seeding of the clouds, you know. I'd like for the American antiquarian book trade to stay vital and to stay energetic and pouring some books into it is a good way to help, it seems to me.
MONTAGNE: How big is Archer City?
MCMURTRY: Archer City's an oil patch town a little over I think it's 1,800 at the moment. It's been pretty much that population during my lifetime. It's definitely built on oil. And it's in that part of Texas that is essentially Midwestern. So it's a Midwestern small town.
MONTAGNE: Well, I'm wondering if this big sale where people - I gather at the auction you have to be there to buy.
MCMURTRY: You do, it's not Internet.
MONTAGNE: So does that mean there are people descending on your town, Archer City?
MCMURTRY: Yes, ma'am, there are. We signed up a bunch yesterday.
MONTAGNE: Well, just finally, you've been in the book business, not just as a writer but also a seller now, for decades. Are there some books, even in this auction, that you couldn't bare to sell?
MCMURTRY: No, no, not at all. I'm a professional bookseller. I have a 28,000 volume personal library that's not for sale. And that's (unintelligible) other ways. But there's nothing in the sale that I'm going to miss. I've been doing it for 50 years, you know. I expect to sell the books and I want to sell the books. And I'll be happy to see them go. I've had them long enough. Somebody else should have them now.
MONTAGNE: Well, Larry McMurtry, thank you for talking with us and good luck with the auction.
MCMURTRY: Thank you very much.
MONTAGNE: And that's bookseller and author Larry McMurtry. His book auction starts on Friday.
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2.I could not understand the difference between hic and is. How are they used? Are they both necessary?
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lit. a. "Hic" is used of what is near the speaker (in time, place, or thought). It is hence called the demonstrative of the first person. It is sometimes used of the speaker himself ; sometimes for " the latter" of two persons or things mentioned in speech or writing; [at this place Allen & Greenough list a third use which I omit because it probably would more confusing than helpful] Often it refers to that which has just been mentioned.
lit. d. "Is" is a weaker demonstrative than the others and is especially common as a personal pronoun. It does not denote any special object, but refers to one just mentioned, or to be afterwards explained by a relative. Often it is merely a correlative to the relative qui:
- venit mihi obviam tuus puer, is mihi litteras abs te eddidit (Att. ii. 1. 1), your boy met me, he delivered to me a letter from you.
- eum quem, one whom.
- eum consulem qui non dubitet (Cat. iv. 24), a consul who will not hesitate.
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"We have invested, relatively speaking, less in foods and more in personal care. That is very much in line with what we want to strategically do," Mr. Huet said.
Unilever's share price rose to the top of the FTSE leader board following Wednesday's update, as investors shrugged off the performance on food and focused elsewhere.
"While the lack of growth in foods and Europe remains a worry, the overall performance, balancing positives [and] negatives, is what is most important and remains impressive," said Bernstein Securities analyst Andrew Wood.
Unilever remains a company with best-in-class operations, but investors will want it to make food a far more palatable part of the business before too long.


text: Dairy Talk: The Farm Bill Game November 25, 2013 07:35 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jim Dickrell Dairy Herd Management Dairy Editor Email By the time you read this, maybe, just maybe, you might be at the point of having to make a decision on whether you will participate in a new farm bill dairy program. In anticipation of final passage, we asked Marin Bozic, a dairy economist with the University of Minnesota, to lay out some of the things dairy farmers should consider. He presented those thoughts at our Elite Producer Business Conference (EPBC) in Las Vegas last month. The devil, of course, will be in the details. If the Senate and House Conference Committee accepts the Senate version, the dairy program would include a market stabilization program, which would require participants to reduce milk production (or forfeit a portion of their milk check) if margins fall below certain thresholds. If the House version prevails, there would be no market stabilization program. Another critical factor will be deadlines for annual sign-up. Note: If you sign up to participate in the Senate version, you'll need to participate for five years. But the program would allow you to change the level of margin protection you want each year. The House version allows you to participate on an annual basis. Bonus Content Farm Bill presentation, Link to Bozic blog Driven to Discover Marin Bozic, University Minnesota When you'll be required to make that decision each year is critical. Under the House language, you'll be required to pay margin insurance premiums by Jan. 15 of the calendar year of participation. This would allow farmers to know market conditions for the first half of the year and give them an idea if indemnities are likely. But if the program is patterned after crop insurance, deadlines might be set at March 15 for the federal fiscal year starting Sept. 30. That way, farmers won't know what crop growing conditions are and will be far less able to predict margins. Dairy Today polled EPBC attendees last month on their preference. Not surprisingly, more people preferred the Jan. 15 deadline. Twenty-eight percent said they'd participate if the deadline under the Senate version was Jan. 15 versus 17% for March 15. The trend was similar for the House version, with 34% preferring Jan. 15 versus 25% preferring March 15. Interestingly, 44% were leaning against participation in either program if the sign-up deadline was March 15. (Non-participation ranged from 33% with the Jan. 15 sign-up date under the Senate version versus 22% under the House version.) The take-home message is that farmers would love a program that gives them a greater chance of return on their insurance "investment." That's human nature, I guess. But, in my opinion, that really doesn't drive the industry toward a risk-management mindset. It's more of a reversion to a "farm the government" mindset. Ohio State University analysis shows the new dairy program could cost up to two to three times that of the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) program. Without market stabilization, the analysis shows costs could be three times MILC. Even with an effective market stabilization, costs could double. USDA rule-writers have a dilemma on their hands. Go with a March 15 sign-up, and participation could suffer. Go with the Jan. 15 sign-up, and costs could soar. But here's the thing: If the price tag to taxpayers gets too high, it might be our last farm bill. JIM DICKRELL is the Editor of Dairy Today. You can contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Back to news


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LONDON, June 21 (Reuters) - Britain's top-selling Sun newspaper, one of the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloids at the centre of a large criminal investigation, said on Friday its editor Dominic Mohan was moving on to a role advising the chief executive of the new News Corp.
Sun veteran David Dinsmore, 44, will take over as the paper's editor from June 24, News International, the British newspaper arm of News Corp, said a statement.
Mohan has been with the Sun for 17 years and editor since 2009, steering it through difficult times as Murdoch's papers became embroiled in an ever-widening scandal which began with phone-hacking claims and spread to illegal payments to officials.
The scandal led to Murdoch closing down its sister Sunday paper the News of the World, and staff from both titles have been arrested and charged with criminal offences.
Former Sun and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks is due to stand trial in September on charges relating to phone- hacking and other offences, and the paper's current deputy editor was charged with making illegal payments to public officials in March.
This week News Corp separated the listing of its publishing business from its entertainment assets on the New York Stock Exchange, in preparation for a formal split next week.
The new publishing company, which will retain the News Corp name, holds assets such as The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, The Times of London, Australian pay-TV services, and book publisher HarperCollins.
Mohan will remain in London to "explore strategic opportunities" in Europe for the new company, advising and reporting to its New York-based chief executive Robert Thomson, News International said.
News International is fighting to rebuild its reputation after the phone-hacking scandal, which prompted a year-long public inquiry and revealed close links between the country's media, police and politicians.
On Friday, the Sun's Pictures Editor John Edwards and journalist Jamie Pyatt were charged with one count of conspiring together, and with persons unknown, to commit misconduct in a public office.
More than 100 journalists and public officials have been arrested or charged by detectives investigating phone-hacking and illegal payments since they re-launched an inquiry in January 2011. The total number charged is 24, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said.


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Voyage 7. THE… "SUN LANGUAGE"
Περιήγηση 7η. Η… "ΓΛΩΣΣΑ-ΗΛΙΟΣ"
"HITTITES, Sumerians, Egyptians, Romans, Indians and Chinese, they all owe their existence to the Turkic race: their cultures and languages have been created by the Turks; Arabs and Jews are of Turkic origin: the prophet Muhammad was also a Turk; and all the languages of the world are derived from Turkish, the mother of all languages: the Kurdish language is non-existent; it is just a corrupt dialect of Turkish; the Kurds are nothing but Turkish highlanders"…
Psychotic megalomania? Absolutely; but also a… university thesis – and even more: an official state policy! This aphorism might be the starting point of a synopsis about the official Turkish ideology on the national question. Almost everyone in the Eurasian zone – except perhaps the Hellenes, Persians and… barbarians – owe almost everything to the Turks: their very existence, their language and culture, let alone their music!
"What about the Hellenes?", some "Romioi" anxiously insist on asking, as they refuse to accept that they have either… never existed, or – most likely – are included among the "Romans" of the above mentioned citation quoted from the gold-bound kitabs of the sages.
"The question on the origin of the Yunans [Ionians] has been answered since the time of Homer", is the smug reply. "The great rhapsode was also a Turk called Omer. Besides, the Europeans have preserved his name almost intact: Homer"!
Well, I'm not referring to freaks of a sick mind. It may be hard to believe but these ideas have been championed by academics! The "Great Idea" (Megale Idea) has died out in Greece(?) but in Turkey it's alive and well and (wants to be) the master of the world…
The Kurdish languages belong to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European family. So they are related to Persian (Farsi), Indian Sanskrit, Hellenic and most European languages. Even… worse (for the Turkish linguists), all the ancient languages in the Anatolian area, still spoken or extinct, such as Hittite, have also been Indo-European.(a)
On the contrary, the Turkic languages (Turkish is just one of them), that are relatively newcomers in Asia Minor, belong to the Altaic family, together with the Mongolic. Some linguists group the Altaic and Uralic (or Finno-Ugric) languages together (in the Ural-Altaic family). No such hypothesis connecting the Altaic and Indo-European languages has been put forward. It doesn't matter much to Ankara's "scientists". Thus they teach linguistics this way… à la turca:
"As is well known, the word soleil means sun in French. In the Turkic dialect of Yakut we can find the corresponding word silai.(b) As the 's' of the Yakut dialect becomes 'g' in the other Turkic dialects, it is self-evident that the word comes from a Turkic root meaning light. Nevertheless, the Turks prefer the more common Turkish word günes. But the proof of the Turkic origin of the word soleil has been a revelation of a great linguistic and scientific truth, from which most important conclusions are derived"…
Signed (unashamedly): İ.N. Dilmen, professor.
Subject: "The Sun Language Theory".
Since I don't like to be branded as a "nationalist", I invoke a Turkish scientist in the true sense of the word, the sociologist İsmail Beşikçi,(c) a man who's spent most of his life in Turkish prisons not because he has committed any crime, but because he's had the courage to publicize his documented views. Beşikçi has been persecuted/prosecuted because he initially criticized (and later polemicized) the ruling ideology of Turkey as it was set forth in such "scientific" theses – and even more so because he has dealt with a taboo subject: the Kurdish question.(d)
The citations quoted above (except that reference to Homer) are from Beşikçi's book, Historical Thesis on Turkey / The Sun Language Theory and the Kurdish Question, which cost him three years in prison because he was "reckless" enough not to deny the existence of a nation… The first thing he took into account was the nature of the positions adopted in 1930 by Turkish "scientists" under the guidance of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk)! Based on official documents, speeches and such "scientific" theses, Beşikçi analyzed the formulation and development of the ideology of Kemalism, exposing its unscientific, racist and chauvinistic nature. In one of his many apologies (speeches in defense of himself), he attacked the official "Justice" of the Kemalist regime:
"As a repressive state mechanism, this court threatens writers and intellectuals with imprisonment, favours police measures and secret trials, condemns scientific thought, prefers the secret services reports against truth and sociological findings, imposes verdicts without – at least – taking into account the defense of the accused and, using loopholes, accepts the colonial oppression and tyranny, denying the reality of the existence of the Kurdish nation, which is an objective fact above the will of people and institutions.
"This court essentially acts as an administrative and political body with a seemingly 'independent function' and 'independent judgment'. It functions just like the gendarmerie, police, national security services and other similar services, attempting to impose the hegemony of the official ideology through its verdicts. Rejecting an objective truth, your court is lying, considering the conclusions drawn by our systematic societal research, the reliable knowledge, and the rights we advocate, as incriminating evidence.
"This court acts like the gendarmerie, police, national security and other services, attempting to impose the hegemony of the official ideology
through its verdicts." (İsmail Beşikçi)
"In its verdicts regarding my books, your court states that 'the sacred memory of Atatürk is stained'. What does that mean? It means that the Kurdish masses – men, women and children – will be continuously sent to exile, to the gallows, will be slaughtered, that laws and decrees will be shamelessly adopted on this logic – but anyone who criticizes such phenomena will be tried on the grounds of 'libeling the sacred memory of Atatürk'. How can one consider genocide, exiles, the complete assimilation enforced in Kurdistan by the Kemalist regime as 'sacred memory'? The division and partition of Kurdistan, the implementation of the tactics 'divide and rule' against the Kurdish nation, may be 'sacred memory' only for the imperialists and colonialists.
"The Turkish universities, on the other hand, as slaves of the official ideology, reject in principio scientific thought obscuring and denying the reality of the Kurdish nation. They consider the official ideology, which is based on fraud and indifference towards objectivity, as the only irresistible and definite reality. So they present this official ideology as scientific and legal. It is at this point that the 'independent' court and 'independent' judgment intervene, trying under threat of punishment to prevent any criticism of the university professors who, through political charlatanism, demand material and social privileges"…
This trial took place in 1979, one year before the so-called democracy was overthrown in a coup of the army, the then mighty pillar supporting the regime. More trials and convictions preceded and followed for Beşikçi. Even if he could live two or three lives, he would not have time enough to serve the 200 years in prison imposed on him in total. Released in 1999, he was sent back to court in 2010 – that is, after the collapse of Kemalism – for "propaganda", because of an article entitled The rights of nations to self-determination and the Kurds, which cost him more 15 months in jail.
In January 1981 he sent a Letter to UNESCO from his prison, stigmatizing the decision of the Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization of the United Nations to declare that year as The Atatürk Year.(e) A new conviction followed. Undeterred he continued sending letters from the dungeons to international organizations that, of course, ended up in the hands of Turkish judges who imposed new sentences. Α letter to the Journalist Union of Switzerland e.g. cost him 10 years!
But even in his trials (where we lose count, indeed) with his apologies (several of these speeches have been put together in his book, Defense), he persevered with remarkable courage and selflessness so as to defend the rights of the Kurdish people relying only on the public's sense of justice – a sense that has ceased to govern the actions of even the "competent" international organizations.
We imagine spontaneously that before us we have İsmail B personifying Josef K, Kafka's main character in The Trial. But our association is rather incongruous: Beşikçi has not been a surreal figure of absurdist fiction but an indomitable hero of free thought and scientific knowledge, a symbol of our time – exactly because such people are rare today. However, he's had the misfortune to be born in Turkey. Therefore, he will never be awarded a Nobel Prize!(f)
It's not me, of course, the one who has politicized the issue of linguistics à la turca. The issue itself is profoundly political. Lay, if you will, the blame on Alain Gheerbrant who "cast the first stone" paralleling Atatürk to Âşık Veysel (see the previous Voyage 6). No doubt, the French researcher is not an isolated case: it constitutes the rule (which is why we take note of him). No need to say that there are even worse cases. One thing, you see, is to credit "exclusively" the Turks with Anatolian music and another thing is to act similarly with the music of Constantinople; especially if we bear in mind that the Ottomans spoke of Arabo-Persian music; only after the Republic was established, this music was described as Turkish, or even Ottoman.(g)
Completely different was the approach adopted by Gheerbrant's namesake and compatriot, Alain Daniélou, as an adviser to UNESCO's International Music Council, which led to a number of outstanding recordings of world music such as Unesco Collection: A Musical Anthology of the Orient; Musical Atlas; Musical Sources; and Anthology of Indian Classical Music / A Tribute to Alain Daniélou. As a producer of the Cairo recordings, Taqâsîm and Layâlî, on instrumental and vocal modal improvisations, he made a thought-provoking synopsis that begins as follows:
"The melodic system peculiar to the Arabic-speaking peoples of the countries bordering on the Eastern and Southern shores of the Mediterranean is the result of a long evolution. It derives from the adaptation by the Arab conquerors of the ancient Greek, Persian, and Egyptian systems, which gradually developed into a unified and highly original art.
"'Until the 13th century the theorists refer to Greek theories, but subsequently there arose a distinctly independent theory and an art, cultivated at the court of the Caliphs, which became increasingly refined and elaborate. Until the end of the 19th century, this art continued to develop under the influence of fresh Persian and Byzantine elements, which had become more prominent owing to the Turkish domination' (d'Erlanger)."
"The melodic system of the Arabic-speaking peoples of the Mediterranean derives from the adaptation of the ancient Greek, Persian, and Egyptian systems. Until the end of the 19th century, this art continued to develop under the influence of fresh Persian and Byzantine elements."
(Alain Daniélou, Rodolphe d'Erlanger)
The conclusions we can draw are astonishing, indeed: until the eve of their empire's collapse, the Ottomans – at least in the domain of music – were still under the influence of the empire they had abolished before half a millennium! It was natural that the Arabic-speaking peoples, then vassals of the Ottomans in the region, were equally influenced. In this way the Byzantine echoe echoed, resonated throughout the Mediterranean: the Christians were influenced through Byzantine ecclesiastical chant at least until the 11th century when, due to the Schism, Gregorian chant became obligatory; the Muslims of the Ottoman Empire were equally influenced – not by ecclesiastical chant, of course, but by the erstwhile secular Byzantine music.
Persian influences may be considered natural, since the Iranians had already achieved their self-determination with their own independent state. But what can one say about Byzantine music, especially secular, which – supposedly – ceased to exist as soon as the state that gave birth to it was erased from the map? How could it possibly influence the Mediterranean on the eve of the 20th century and even impregnate it with "fresh" musical elements?
Trying to resume what Alain Daniélou and Rodolphe d'Erlanger have just said, and the thoughts they have provoked, we can imagine a historical model as follows: the Arabs, that is, those coming from the Arabian Peninsula, were cultivated adopting the ancient Hellenic, Persian, and Egyptian cultures. They knew, therefore, their empire could not last long if they were not able to assimilate the civilized Mediterranean peoples they had conquered. Under the circumstances, this could only happen through religion, first of all, and secondarily, language. It was absolutely necessary for the Arabs to break the ties of these ancient peoples with their glorious past by making them convert to Islam and – even better – adopt Arabic. That's how they could exert undisputed control on their vast empire. All they needed was a combination of incentives and coercion. It was a rather moderate tactics compared with the one used for the Christianization of the Hellenes, with an outright violent campaign, a long, widespread genocide: see Chronicle 7+. "We Don't Need No Thought Control!").
The Arabs knew their empire could not last long if they did not assimilate the ancient peoples they had conquered. This could only happen through religion (Islam) and language (Arabic). They had to break the ties of these peoples with their glorious past. That's how they could exert undisputed control on their vast empire…
When the Turks took over the Caliphate, they also adopted Arab culture that had sprung out like an amalgam from these ancient civilizations. Note that this synthesis started bearing fruit only in the 13th century, that is, after Constantinople fell for the first time to the Crusaders and Venetians in 1204. There was no similar cultural renaissance during the Ottoman period. That's why there were still "fresh Persian and Byzantine influences" onto the Court music and art until the last days of the Ottoman Empire. What exactly was the Ottoman contribution? It was not so much musical but mainly political – through this wider, unified area – allowing these influences to have a greater impact on every corner of the empire.
According to the Tunisian Professor Salah el Mahdi, who spoke at the musicological symposium of Delphi on Rhythms, Modes and Scales of Mediterranean Music in 1988, the Near East was influenced by the so-called Turco-Byzantine music:
"Arab culture", he stressed, "is an integral and significant part of the Mediterranean culture. The modes of Arabic music are classified into four major schools:
"a) The Maghreb School; it is represented by the Arabo-Andalusian musical heritage introduced into the area by the Arabo-Andalusian refugees in the 14th and 15th centuries. This music survives today across North Africa, along with the old music of the Libyan people of this region.(h)
"b) The Near East School; it is represented by the musical heritage of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and, of course, Egypt. In part, this school has influenced Libya and Tunisia, which thus participate in two schools, as they are found in between. The Near East School has been influenced by the old Turco-Byzantine music, extending to the Balkans and Caucasus.
"c) The Arabo–Persian School; it is represented by the Abbasid musical heritage created in their great capital, Baghdad. It's been the musical act in Iraq, Iran and all the [former] Soviet Republics of Central Asia as far as China.
"d) The Arabian Peninsula School; it includes Saudi Arabia, Yemen, all the Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman, and has had a twofold influence: from India and Africa."
Now that we are sufficiently informed, and also have the necessary standard of comparison, we may have some fun enjoying Bernard Mauguin's sophistries:
"Born in the shadow of Islam, Turkish classical music has been confused early in its history with art music of Persia and the Arab peoples. This common origin has been the cause of a persistent misunderstanding and, in general, little distinction is made between these various musical forms, which are usually grouped together under the vague heading of 'Oriental music'…
"However, just as a knowledgeable listener can easily distinguish a work of Bach from a work of Berlioz, he could never confuse the playing of a Turkish musician with that of an Arab or an Iranian musician. Classical Turkish music has its own distinct personality"…
So we are talking about such colossal differences: those between Bach and Berlioz! Who would have the guts to disagree? But these were differences of eras, between two composers (one baroque, the other romantic) who created in the same tradition of Occidental "classical" music during the so-called common practice period (baroque, classical, romantic). Racial differences (German vs. French) were rather insignificant. The same applies to the distinction among Turkish, Arab and Iranian musicians: their main difference, especially before the creation of national states, was also a difference of eras. If Mauguin had compared Bach not with Berlioz but with Brahms, he would have noticed that they too are "easily distinguishable". But such a comparison between two composers of common origin (both Bach and Brahms were Germans) would have deprived him of any pretext for his chicaneries…
Bach vs. Berlioz: not German vs. French music but
baroque vs. romanticism (plus genius vs. average…)
There is no doubt that if instead of Western theorists we had their Oriental colleagues, things might have been even worse, since everyone would have "trumpeted one's own merchandise". Mahdi in Delphi e.g. spoke of Turco-Byzantine music because he was not a Turk; that's why he gave no due emphasis to the role of Persian music theorists, something that the Iranian Hormoz Farhat did; but he in turn "forgot" the contribution of Byzantine music, which Simon Karas put forward at the forefront – and so on…
What the Orient needs is an era of Renaissance and Enlightenment – something that the Occident intentionally obstructs for its own advantage and interests. These interests, I'm afraid, have been served, consciously or not, by those Western theoreticians who can't see the forest for the trees (or, if you like, focus on the finger and can't see it's pointing to the moon), emphasizing the secondary – the local differences in music – and minimizing the primary – its common features. It is the classic recipe: Divide et impera!