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Flowers, Blossoms

Wooden Houses in Istanbul Historical Peninsula. 2021

Sait Faik Abasıyanık. Great Author of Sea and Fishermen.

SAİT FAİK ABASIYANIK VE BALIKÇILAR

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Turkish Twins

1959, Fatih,Istanbul

 

1962, Fatih, Istanbul

Turkish Industrial Leaders

With Mr Şaban Gülbahar, industrial leader and initiator of several Think Tanks in Istanbul, Turkey

Turkish Poetry

Year of Ox in Hong Kong. 1997

Entrance of Ocean Centre, Tsimhatsui

Sun Tzu and Atatürk: Art of War…

Sun Tzu’s Art of War is the number one reference source for business strategies, and strategy is actually a military term. The views of the general and strategist Sun Tzu, who was the gift of ancient China to world history, inspired the millennia that followed. The first known strategist of history has shown different cultures a path to strategy with his approach to the enemy and his philosophy of war in today’s global competition. He interpreted war as an art and formed the basis of modern management sciences in the fields of resource, time management and administration. The philosophical infrastructure he established on how to win the war, how to resolve problems and disagreements, has turned into a treasure trove of knowledge benefited by large organizations, the armies of today.

The business world continues to import military terms into the discipline. The internet concept developed as a result of the latest military applications has been added to concepts such as strategy, tactics and logistics. Both the world, both in Turkey’s history of technological, scientific, management philosophies have been developed as military-oriented availability.

Mankind laid the foundations of today’s organization by coming together to hunt for the first time, then come together to clash with opposing groups, and in the ongoing process, they have made efforts to develop these groups in a managerial and scientific manner to fight more effectively. Its formation of human communities, its hierarchy within the organizational structure and the competition it enters with similar formations for its existence are identified with its armies with today’s companies and with the fierce rivalries of these companies in order to increase their sphere of influence.

The increasing importance of the People’s Republic of China is an indisputable fact in these days when the order of the world political economy is changing. In this period when the new world order is at the stage of establishment, examining the Sun Tzu philosophy, which has started with the Turks throughout the history of China and determines its relations with “others”, will undeniably develop our organization’s reaction abilities.

Management science is not enough for today’s companies that have goals such as growing profitably, increasing market share, and getting ahead in competition. This problem brings about increases in the number of companies and managers who try to utilize other disciplines with the intention of getting better results.

The teachings of the general named Sun Tzu, who had a very important place in the history of the war, are among these sources. It is Sun Tzu who put forward the first theories in strategy science. Sun Tzu, who lived in China 2500 years ago, comes from Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”, known as “the world’s oldest book of war strategies”. This work, which is one of the famous Chinese classics and is considered to be the basis of all modern military strategies, is in ancient China. 5-3. It is known that it was written in the “Warring States” period (the period of the Chou dynasty) that lived between centuries. In the work dominated by Taoist philosophy, war is considered as “a matter of vital importance for states, a matter of life and death, the road to life or extinction” and for this reason it is said that “it is inevitable to examine it deeply”.

The “Art of War” book has become a classic in military academies in many countries of the world. In this respect, we can compare it to the “Roman Law” course taught in every law school.

Sun Tzu rose to the rank of general with the wisdom and achievements he produced during the provincial wars. The principles of war have been accepted by everyone, and not much has been added to the ideas he found. In the war with Hannibal, the Roman commander Fabius Maximus was saved by his ideas, and Napoleon Bonaparte won the battles of Jena and Austerlitz by adopting his mind. The USA announced that it suffered much less losses in the desert storm and the Iraq wars.

Approximately M. Ö. The Art of War, written in 500 years, is the oldest work of the military in the world. Quite briefly, but succinctly and intensely, it covers only the principles and still largely retains its original value.

This book is still a valuable guide to the management of warfare (that is, even twenty-five centuries after it was written), for military researchers and students who are capable of adapting the principles it covers to the demands of contemporary warfare.

Although chariots have disappeared and weapons have changed, this ancient master retains its value only because it deals with the fundamental issues, the influence of politics, and the aspect of human nature in military action. He has remarkably demonstrated how these principles are immutable. Some of the principles of the Art of Crossword Book are as follows:

The Art of War is vital to the state.

– All war practices are based on deception and deception.

– In war, your biggest goal is victory, not long voyages.

– In the offensive, the able general is that he does not know what to defend against. He is skillful in defense that; He does not know what to attack.

– Speed ​​is the essence of war. (Quickness is the spirit of war. Take advantage of the enemy’s unpreparedness, take unexpected routes and attack undefended points)

Today’s firms are also fighting. The difference between the war the firms are in and the real war is that firms do not have the option to stay on the sidelines and not go into war. There is a war between the chains, and since there is a symbiotic relationship between the companies in the chain, each company has to make an effort towards the success of the chain. In such a case, Sun Tzu teachings are of undeniable benefit.

ATATÜRK AND SUN TZU: Comparative Analysis of Martial Art

The first known strategist in history, Sun Tzu’s book Art of War, which has shown a strategy to different cultures with his approach to the enemy in today’s global competition and his philosophy of war, is the number one reference source for war (and competition) strategies. The actors of the war in Sun Tzu’s book “The Art of War” are the Chinese and the Turks.

Turks, on the other hand, fought ceaselessly until they came to Ataturk, but they did not write about their wars. 2500 years after Sun Tzu, Ataturk, with his applications and evaluations about the Art of War, has opened the way to provide a basis for comparing the practices of the Chinese and Turks, the oldest masters of the Art of War.

By Sun Tzu’s military doctrine, our founder, Mustafa Kemal decided that Atatürk taken on careers, interpreted the competitive outlook and war philosophy of winning victory in the War of Independence, it offers against their rivals, Turkey interpretation of Strategy holistic identity, allowing us to use the essence of our resources effectively will give us the opportunity to develop our corporate identity in line with our roots.

Mission in Atatürk; In Sun Tzu, the vision is limited to victory in a narrow sense, while Atatürk has taken the war out of the battlefields with the concept of real victory, and made the war not only concerned with the soldiers, but made the nation and the people all actors of the war. Compared to Ataturk’s vision, which surpasses the strategy, Sun Tzu does not seem to have surpassed the technical and tactical level.

The study also drew attention to the differences between Sun Tzu and Atatürk in similar aspects. The points where they merged and diverged have been scanned and interpreted based on the decisions they made in extensive sources.

Although the periodic differences of Atatürk and Sun Tzu are minimized in the text, factors that make a difference between them depending on the different conjunctures, the periods and reasons of the wars that created them, were frequently encountered during the study.

It should not be expected that the views of the army of Sun Tzu, who were commissioned by emperors or princes for booty, on the victory, and Atatürk’s army, which was created from a defeated imperial army and had the last chance to save his country.

The difference of the term victory, which is different from the two commanders, forms the center of the differences that emerge throughout the work. The choices made by the commanders between defense and attack, while the Sun Tzu does not mention the concept of pursuit, Atatürk’s strict adherence to the principle of absolute follow-up and annihilation constitute effective examples of these interpretation differences arising from the conjuncture differences of the two thinkers.

The most striking difference in the study was the difference in vision between the two commanders. While the aim of Sun Tzu is to gain superiority to the enemy in combat, Atatürk’s aim is to win the war. Enemy extermination, persistent aggression and pursuit emerged as a result of Atatürk’s broad vision.

It has also been surprising to see great identifications in the text, apart from the difference of two thousand five hundred years between them. The decisions taken by the two commanders who served history coincide with each other before, after and during the war, and it is underlined that the structure that can take aggressive and disciplined initiative will achieve victory.

Another striking feature is the importance that both commanders attach to the changeability of their plans in the ongoing process, following the preparation of their foundations in the planning phase. A striking difference in tactics and other areas is the importance given to factors other than its own power, such as the terrain and the state of the enemy, in Sun Tzu, although the war in Atatürk was planned by considering its own resources and its own situation.

As a result, the study has shown that the two leaders have striking similarities, rather than differences, in both leadership and management. In these similarities, while the importance given to spiritual power by Atatürk is visibly higher than Sun Tzu, Sun Tzu’s emphasis on the indispensability of the discipline within the organizational structure is more than Atatürk.

Considering the differences, the most important phenomenon can be defined as Atatürk’s seeking victory with the destruction of the enemy as a determinant feature, and in Sun Tzu, seeing the enemy’s withdrawal from the battlefield as necessary and sufficient conditions for victory.

War is a phenomenon that has existed since the creation of man. Throughout history, all the material and spiritual developments, scientific and moral advances failed to eliminate the ongoing wars between people, and even caused it to strengthen both technologically and intellectually, increase its spreading area and power of destruction. Drawing attention to this situation, some authors described the history of humanity as a “history of wars” and throughout history many thinkers, soldiers and statesmen wrote various works on what war is, its place in the historical course, its impact on the social and economic cycle and the art of war .

Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”, known as “the world’s oldest book of war strategies”, is one of the most important of these works. This work, which is one of the famous Chinese classics and considered to be the basis of all modern military strategies, is It is known that it was written during the “Warring Provinces” period (the period of the Chou Dynasty), which lived between the 5th and 3rd centuries BC. It is also considered as “the road to extinction” and for this reason it is said that “it is inevitable to examine it in depth”.

Sun Tzu, a great Chinese strategist (military philosopher) who lived in the BC 500s, introduced the first theories in the science of strategy in his famous work «The Art of War».

He grew up as a military strategist in China during the constant raids of Sun Tzu Turks, who lived in China 2500 years ago, between 78-711 B.C. and matured his thoughts by studying the Turkish armies. B.C. He is famous for his work “The Art of War” written in 500 years. Listing the principles and principles of war, this work preserves its importance and value in the modern age.

It is a magnificent book that should be read not only by soldiers or researchers, but also by everyone in today’s business world, especially in executive positions.

In addition to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (500 B.C.) as a source in the study, our founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk between the years 1908-1938;

  • that they have signed,
  • what he wrote,
  • what you say,
  • your personal notes,
  • his orders on battlefields,
  • His statements to the press,
  • private conversations,
  • personal memories,
  • his statements during the period he directed wars

A systematic database has been created by scanning and gathering them together. Atatürk’s practices and evaluations about the Art of War are abstracted from place and time. Again, in the comments, it is generalized by using the concepts of enemy Turks instead of Greeks / Army instead of Turkish Army.

  

 

Power of Thoughts

THE POWER OF THOUGHT AND THE THINKERS

“The Power of Language” has been the cover of a book by one of our great philosophers Nermi Uygur. “The Power of Language” is a language work aimed at expressing the language that has been at the top of Nermi Uygur’s writing agenda from the beginning.

“The Power of Language” facilitates the emergence of thoughts, as it is called in the inscriptions, the fall of the writer, and makes thought a power.

DREAM (from the root that includes the meaning of falling, suddenly appearing, product, fruit, reward, emergence in old Turkish) and THINK, (dream-u-n / think; instantaneous informational impression) deriving from the roots of THOUGHT to fall on its own, to fall oneself, to reveal an object in its own memory, to give birth, to memorize, to produce has gained the meaning. All the meanings contained in the root / dream root are in the act of thinking.

The root sense of spontaneity and its emergence makes the infinite influence of power in thought unique.

“Thought Power” is nourished by language and when it is recorded in writing, it attains immortality. Living ideas are what make human beings immortal. When the inscriptions, which are the first written works of the Turks, were examined, the level of development of the language amazed the readers. The language of the Turks, starting with the Yenisey Inscriptions, left traces on three continents for one thousand five hundred years, and the “Power of Thought” created museum contributions.

Starting from our first thinker and writer Tonyukuk, after the field mobility we have provided across geographies, continents, rivers, mountains, seas and talay for a period of millennia, from the time we started to stop and think in the last three hundred years, a noble and noble We must impose dreams and brand new and original thoughts into our minds and minds by reassessing our thinkers.

Thought is weakened by Allied and Dependent parentheses, our eyes are blinded to the Thinker eternity, and our brains are distracted. The false allies we need are not uninformed trustees, but true believers filled with “Thought Force”. Our goal is to turn our language and state into a global power by training both thinkers and entrepreneurs.

As Celal Tahir Bey, one of our living thinkers, said: “Contemplation is troublesome, but it is fertile, there is no mercy without trouble.”

“The chance of presenting an original thought in our current social structure is very difficult. For this, a group dealing with knowledge should be formed in the society. We have not yet adopted knowledge as a value in our society. I said that I only saw Ömer Lütfü Barkan as a scientist, but I did not see him after that. There should be a group whose job is knowledge, this still does not exist. There are one by one, one by one, very valuable Turks. But I think a social group acting collectively with the motivation of knowledge has not been formed yet, but it will, otherwise we cannot live in this world. Honestly, I did not know how to be a scientist without knowing Barkan. Yes, of course we had professors at the university, we read and listened to their lectures. Among them there were also those who had knowledge, but there was no man with knowledge. When our Turks still talk about science, they usually read and learn the foreigners who wrote it and think that they are scholars. However, science is not something that can be gained by studying scientists.

It is necessary to wander within the boundaries of knowledge, like a raider, towards the unknown… That was Barkan, a person who wanted to know what he did not know with his own effort, and investigated. He was working day and night for him. He had no other concern than my knowledge. Then we read it and learned that this is a verse. At that time, we did not know this: “I will give knowledge to anyone who wants.” We later understood what is meant by saying, without limitation. In order to ask for knowledge, it is necessary to be in agreement with him and to be science. One can only reach if he really wants it. Barkan was like that, it consisted of living with the subject he explored day by night. It was a chance for me… ”

“Turkey is at a turning point now. Not only in Turkey, I think in the last century, humanity has lost its direction. For their own convenience, they deviate in ways such as crushing their enemy with nuclear weapons. But one should not be afraid to look at them. He should work hard, trusting this country and its future. The main thing is the wealth of ideas. So no matter what happens, it is necessary to preserve freedom of thought. ”

To follow the mission of knowledge, contemplation, thought, idea and opinion of our thinkers and people of thought; it must be a sacred duty;

State to be in the world

like a bit of an idea;

two times

It has the effect of a treasure.

ALİ GEVGİLİLİ: THINKERS THINK

During my university education, which started in the mid-1970s, I prepared a bibliography by scanning the newspaper collections of Beyazıt State Library in 1982, as a result of the positive contributions of the pages of the Thinkers Forum, which was published in Milliyet newspaper on Sundays and which I follow constantly; publishing was fortune today.

Prof Ümit Doğanay, one of the thinkers of the forums, was my teacher from the Turkish Revolution History courses at the IITIA Şişli School of Political Sciences. He fell victim to a political murder. Dr. Server Tanilli was shot and mutilated. Prof. Melih Tümer was arrested for his ideas. It was the painful destiny of thoughts and thinkers.

The Thinkers Forum, which was first published in Milliyet newspaper on February 9, 1969, was published for 453 weeks in 11 years and voiced the thoughts of 630 thinkers. The forums, which take their place on the newspaper pages every week on Sundays, fulfilled a unique function in terms of displaying and reinforcing the “Power of Thought” and its termination in May 1980 had deep meanings.

The “Cultural Revolution” started in China in 1966 was reflected in Europe as 1968 youth movements and the winds of free thought started to blow in our country. The Forum of the Thinkers launched in the said conjuncture; It served as a bracket between the periods of the 27 May 1960 and the 12 September 1980 Military Coup. Free Thought could only be tolerated for 11 years. Those who can tolerate are the Atlantic centers of the Civilization Beast, whose only female remains. The lies of the so-called democracy and the ideal of freedom of thought of the US and British branches of the Atlantic World have hit their faces with the military coups they have committed themselves. With the system and mechanics of coups, the System produced ideology, not ideas. Those who produce ideas were punished, and a coup slogan was made every ten years. Ali Gevgilili, who directed the Thoughts of the Thinkers and the Forum of the Thinkers for 11 years, put an end to his journalistic life in May 1980.

In the first part; The Thinkers Forum bibliography was prepared, classified according to their subjects, and index and statistical data were created.

During our work;

The forums are listed chronologically.

Forums are classified according to their topics.

An index was created to associate the thinkers participating in the forums with the forums they attended.

In the second part; Ali Gevgilili, the creator of the Thinkers Forum, was evaluated as thought-oriented.

Our wish;

It is the termination of the limited access of the Thinkers Forum in the newspaper archives, and the publication of each volume as soon as possible by planning to cover a year.

The revitalization of the “Forum and Thoughts of the Thinkers” eco-initiated by the Thinker Ali Gevgilili in the press of our country is to open the way of development by activating the Thought Force, which is the most real power in life.

THE POWER OF THOUGHT AND OUR THOUGHTS 

“The Power of Language” has been the cover of a book by one of our great philosophers Nermi Uygur. “The Power of Language” facilitates the emergence of thoughts, the expression in the inscriptions, and makes thought a power.

DREAM (from the root that includes the meaning of falling, suddenly appearing, product, fruit, reward, emergence in old Turkish) and THINK, (dream-u-n / think; instantaneous informational impression) deriving from the roots of THOUGHT to fall on its own, to fall oneself, to reveal an object in its own memory, to give birth, to memorize, to produce has gained the meaning. All the meanings contained in the root / dream root are in the act of thinking. The root sense of spontaneity and its emergence makes the infinite effect of power in thought unique.

“Thought Power” is nourished by language, and when it is recorded in writing, it attains immortality. Living ideas are what make human beings immortal. When the inscriptions, which are the first written works of the Turks, were examined, the level of development of the language amazed the readers. The language of the Turks, starting with the Yenisey Inscriptions, left traces on three continents for one thousand five hundred years and shaped our “Power of Thought”.

Thought is weakened by Allied and Dependent parentheses, our eyes are blinded to the Thinker eternity, and our brains are distracted. Starting from our first thinker, Tonyukuk, after the field mobility we have provided throughout the geographies, continents, rivers, mountains, seas and talay for a period of millennia, from the time we started to stop and think in the last three hundred years, with a noble and noble power we have taken from our field wealth, We have to re-evaluate our thinkers and bring dreams and brand new thoughts to our minds.

The false allies we need are true believers filled with the “Power of Mind”, not the uninformed trustees and purposeful hypocrites.

State to be in the world

like a bit of an idea;

two times

It is like a treasure.

A CALL TO THINKING A Monumental Thought Heritage from the 20th Century: FORUM OF THINKERS 

The real reason for the poor necessity is the weakness of thought, that the thoughts forced by the outside world and unrelated to our own sociology are made to be adopted by our intellectuals as various imported images. The Atlantic-Mediterranean Alliance is active 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to prevent original ideas from spreading and maturing in our geography. It is not possible for the bureaucracy to understand and evaluate the reality of the bureaucracy, which is limited to the 09.00-17.00 time, which was consolidated by the Prime Minister İsmet İnönü on the eve of the 1965 general elections with Law No. 657.

Great Asia, Turkestan, thousands of years of thought and language that have imprinting accumulation as a small Asian culture to the memory of Turkey, closed from the beginning of the 20th century, the neutered language as a result of the Atlantic caliper is clamped, and the idea has been devalued. We are faced with a simple chronic drama.

The military coups (1980, 1997, 2016) that followed Ali Gevgilili’s farewell with his profession in May 1980, who left unforgettable traces in the world of thought with 454 forums and 630 thinkers, caused deep wounds in our country’s domestic thought heritage. As a result, our country, which cannot produce domestic thought, tries to fill this gap with foreign thoughts. It should not be an exaggeration to say that two thirds of our country’s publishing market consists of foreign copyrighted works.

In the period of 1946-2016, the sequence and mechanics of the Atlantic Alliance constantly destroyed the “Thought Force” of the Thinkers. The farewell to journalism by Ali Gevgilili, the visionary of the Forum of the Thinkers, on May 4, 1980 is the most obvious manifestation of this phenomenon.

The revitalization of the “Forum and Thoughts of the Thinkers” school, initiated by Mr. Fikr-i Ali, Zikr-i Ali Thinker Ali Gevgilili, is our important wish to open the way of development by activating the “Thought Force”, which is the most real power in life.

 

Sages

Turkey and Human Geography

We are at the start of the 3000s. The first lights of the period, when the ideas and information were more valuable as dawn brightened, began to appear with the 21st century. Thoughts of land that first sprouted Geography of Turkey is one of the fertile geography where four of the top ten thinkers from the world. The continents (Europe, Asia, Africa) at the transition point in Eastern Mediterranean as a result of the diversity and richness of the gene pool is located in the same way as the idea of ​​the richness and diversity.

The first essay on the Encyclopedia of Universal Thinkers begins with the accumulation of 2650 years, starting with Thales of Miletus, the first known philosopher born in 624 BC. The first great philosopher first 10 3, a total of 5 of them from Turkey’s geography. Philosophy, began in Turkey geography.

5 of the top 10 thinkers from thinkers born in Turkey.

  1. Thales, Milet
  2. Anaximander, Milet
  3. Pythagoras, Samos island
  4. Laozi
  5. Confucius
  6. Sun Tzu
  7. Heraclitus, Ephesus
  8. Parmenides
  9. Anaxagoras, Klazomenai, Urla
  10. Protagoras

Source: Xue Xiaoyuan, Dr. The Charisma of 100 Philosophers. 2018. China Pictorial Press.

It is extremely important that European philosophy from the continents surrounding the Mediterranean cannot be understood without the development process that takes place elsewhere and passes to Europe. The beginnings of the development called Garp philosophy lie in what the Hellenes call the Orient (Anatole). The first center here was Miletos. Thales, Anaximandros and Anaximenes were the first philosophers of the history of philosophy with the intellectual activity they showed and the problems they addressed.

The second and main center was in Europe: Athens. However, the third center, Alexandreia (Alexandria), is also outside the European borders in Egypt, followed by Baghdad, a little deeper in the Orient. Source: Elmar Holenstein, Atlas of Philosophy, Places and Ways of Thinking, 2015 June, Istanbul, Küre Publishing

Cyprus, located in the middle of the triangle of Miletus-Alexandria-Baghdad; It is in a position to reproduce the intellectual legacy of Asia Minor-Greater Asia-Africa.