[A-List] Nongovernmental organizations with financing from the West

["Sabri Oncu" <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060123/43140921.html

>From Rick Rozoff by way of Tony:

> Non-governmental organizations with financing 
> from other countries are thought to have played 
> a major role in the "revolutions" that have swept 
> former Soviet states in recent years, prompting 
> some Russian politicians to raise concerns that 
> similar activity was being carried out in Russia.

I think this is another important topic to discuss. There are many such NGOs
in Turkiye too and some of the rumors I hear is that one of the private
universities, namely, the so-called Bilgi Universitesi (Knowledge
University), is closely associated with the Soros Fund. As is everywhere, we
have conspiracy theorists back home too, but this does not mean that
conspiracies do not exist. As a joke goes, I may be paranoid but this does
not mean that they do not follow me.

What I do not like about this Bilgi Universitesi is that they even have a
"Cultural Studies" program, with a prominent "intellectual" serving as a
professor there: Murat Belge. 

Some of his statements about the "ordinary people" of his country, published
in a newspaper called Radikal (a name that must be the result of some
marketing study by some media Mongul's marketing team to attract former
leftists who turned liberals) boarders with outright
reverse-racism/reverse-Orientalism and because of my mentioning of that,
among other things such as my opposition to Turkey's joining EU, led me to
get expelled from one of the lists with very close ties to this wonderful
"intellectual," Belge, a while ago. 

I challenged them by claiming that they had to throw me out since I was not
leaving myself. They called themselves "libertarian leftists," whatever that
means, and an interesting debate broke out about whether they should kick me
out or not. 

Eventually I left myself, after getting bored with the game I was playing.

In any event, what the heck are these west financed NGOs are doing in
countries such as Russia, Ukraine, my country Turkiye and the like do you
think?

Best,

Sabri