Serdar Ortaç

Somehow time has escaped me and I have failed to post blogs about so many things in the last few months: Christmas in Budapest, my trip to Egypt, the beaches in Cyprus, may fest, friends visiting, and so many other things!! Any hope of this blog being well-organized or chronological is lost.....

So...Serdar Ortaç- this is where I'm going to pick up the dropped ball and continue reminiscing.

A Turkish pop star my yabancı friends and I are obsessed with had a concert at Hacettepe University's mayfest last weekend. He played one song: şeytan. Our favorite!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1oXk-UvAvA

However, after this the some threw Ayran at the man of the hour!



After which, he stormed off the stage never to return again. The disappointment! My first Turkish concert and Serdar bounces because a salty dairy product was launched on stage.....

In classes this week, I consulted my students about the event and it seems as though it was more than ayran, but also rocks and maybe a knife or fork? (it is unclear) and other legitmately dangerous objects.

Why the contempt?

It seems as though, per usual, politics lies at the root of the problem.

Ahmet Kaya (please consult Wikipedia, best source of info ever, lol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Kaya) was attacked in 2001 by Serdar for his position on Kurdish-Turkish relations. Ahmet, known for his involvement with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) which tends to effect terrorism in the Eastern part of Turkey seems to have been mildly avenged last weekend....a quintessential example of all the complicated underpinnings I fail to recognize or initally understand, being a foreigner and all, even after almost nine months in Turkey.