The Greatest Hits of Tarkan

Hüsamettin Tarkan Tevetoğlu, internationally known as Tarkan, in the beginnings because of his song Şimarik, with the time has been transformed into a multifaceted and charismatic artist.

He was born in Alzey, west Germany, cause his parents were part of the generation of turkish inmigrants that went to Deutschland during that country's economic boom.

After returning to Turkey, carrer of Tarkan began with Şimarik in the early 90's, showing an impressive young talent. His personality has earned him a number of criticisms, which only shows his great artistic potential variously updated on a lot of musical themes.

Then his first hit which caused a stir for the unique style that combined the Western and near Eastern cultures, came Şikidim or Aacayipsin (Oh - You're Something Else), name of his second album, followed by Dudu (disc counterpart) and Kuzu-kuzu.

"Hepsi Senin Mi?" (or Şikidim) incorporated shaky Turkish rhythms and lyrics of the language used today in Turkey, and in the video of the song Tarkan slanted his body to the rhythmic melody of the song while displaying a naked chest. This was considered too audacious for the rising and conservative turkish music industry. Always rebellious and erotic, the same happened with Hüp and Don Bebegim. Outside of his profession also caused a big agitation because of his nudes and semi-nudes in some turkish magazines.

But the story didn't finish there, because Tarkan is also known for the support provided to UNICEF, and other humanitarian causes, although he too has been surprised consuming drug. He has said that it was his fault.

Through commercials he has done to the Turkish television for Pepsi, Avea, and encouraging to the soccer's Turkish selection (Bir Oluruz Yoluna), the diverse music of Tarkan is really fascinating and melodic not only on lyrics wich talk about love and heartbreak and delicious melodies but also on his videos, it can be noted with, for example, Arada Bir (Once in a while), Ayrilik Zor (Hard Separation), Gul Doktum Yollarina (I covered of roses your way), Dudu (Woman), Kuzu Kuzu (Lamb), Dilli Duduk (Whistle Language), Verme (Give me nothing), Gülumse Kaderine (Smile at your fate) and recently, Öp (Kiss), which together with Sevdanin son Vuruşu (The last hit of Love), Acimayak (It will not hurt you), Kayip (Lost) and Işim olmaz (I have nothing with nobody else) is part of his last work, Adimi Kalbine Yaz (Write my name on your heart).

Finally I recommend some of his best songs of the discs Dudu, Karma and Metamorfoz, which are his early middle twenty-first century:

Dudu: Bu Şarkilar Da Olmasa (f not for these songs), Sorma Kalbim (Don't ask my heart);

Karma: Aşk (Love), Ay (Oh), Yandim (I lit), O'na Sor (Ask him), Sen Başkasin (Something Else), Taş (Stone), Her Nerdeysen (Wherever);

Metamorfoz: Hop Hop, Dedikodu (Gossip).

The question of civilization in some pictures?

Turkey

This eurasian country, ancient bridge between the two first known worlds, Europe and Asia, was many years ago (in the Neolothic an the Iron Age) home to hattians, hittites, assyrians, and a lot of other peoples, cradle of civilizations. Place of meetings and disagreements, love and rage, peace and war, was chosen by greeks tribes to stablish their colonies, that even today we remember from hearsey: Mileto, Éfeso, Esmirna y Bizancio, the last one, actual Istanbul, the largest city of Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti). Trophy of Persian, didnt take along for Alexander the Great made it his, and then the same with Republican and Imperial Rome in days of glory and misery.
In 324 AC, emperor Constantine decided to transfer capital of the Empire to Bizancio, two thousand years too known as the Pearl of Orient, that became the bastion of half of the empire that withstood a thousand years older than her Western sister, less lucky, before it felt, in 476 and 1453 respectively.
Later, after Seljuk Sultanate occupied much of Turkey, the Ottoman Empire completed their conquest of Byzantine Empire capturing Bizancio in 1453 AC, shrank only after five centuries of splendor.
Republic was established with invasion of alies of triple entent in 1922, finishing First Wold War, and today is a parliamentary representative democracy, that belongs to the European Union, with a strong tradition of pluralism and secularism, but too maintaining its beautiful and ancient traditions.

Well, Turkey doesnt offer us a unique past, cause traditions and modernity give form to a magical and no less realistic exciting world of contrasts, similarities and creations.

For example, music. There are a very powerful group of young turkish, as the band Kolpa, or artists as Teoman, Yusuf Güney, Gokhan Tepe, and specially Tarkan!

Tarkan is one of the most controversial figures of Turkey, with his captivating way of dance, his strong and unlimited personality, and a thrilling and atavistic voice.

A fantabulous experience

This semester has been a beautiful and hard craziness, maybe more than the last years...

There were a lot of new people, sensations, events, meetings, projects, challenges, and others things, but actually, this semester is still a mistery from start to finish, at least for me.

Holidays and the earthquake were the first elements that have allowed me to look back, live the present and try to project the future maybe coming my feet closer to land. After being vacationing with my family of southern and worried for the South, I met wonderful people when I arrived to Lolol (as volunteer) that gave me a incredible power to remember the energy which exists when someone is involved with the heart. We and our kids of Lolol, playing, singing, dancing, living almost as a family, made that the magic grew normally without losing its charm. One smile is enough difference to start to live a dream.

The return to the University did not be easy, and with difficulty I could get used to classes, tests and exams. Maybe we do not have enough time due to the large amount of duties that do not allow do other important things we can as persones, absorbing us without many alternatives.
Albeit all subjects have some special and each one have a singular and esential objective, as the Administrative Law and public service, or History and the senses of the history, or Criminal Law and the rights of the acussed according to principles of culpability, legality and morality, we need sometimes more experiences to put in practice the theory.

In this context, the english course has meant a chance to leave the everydays concerns and pay more attention to english, know new interesting people and enjoying learnig in a fun atmosphere; Gabriela Mistral said that work have more senses if you do it as a game. The amount of things which can implies the activities is spectacular.

Too the blog allowed me write about my feelings without many limitations (I think there is a general common point in the posts I wrote), and although either I could do the homework, it gives me the possibility of share some ideas with friends, put a little piece of my soul in those lines to the people who can read and know (a bit of) me, and know to my companions and miss.

To all them: thank you very much, the best wishes and my respect and friendship. See you soon!

Definitely a good movie

Definitely, maybe is definitely a good romantic comedy, and to me is one of my favorite movies.
Behind all the jokes, I find a lot of brilliants ideas in the scripts, cause they realize a realistic resume of our modern life and the concerns involving.

First, the problem of identity of children in the case of divorce; the lovely girl is worried about the fate of the relationship of her parents, and how stays her self in this situation. But things are not so dramatics, cause with the loving presence of the parents a child can be sure he or she is not responsible of the split up.

Second, the problem of the failure of romantic love and the posibility of try again on face of breakdown; a father affectionate show us how is essential be attentive to opportunities in the life, but it doesn`t means inconstancy, actually on the contrary the ability to recognize our mistakes, trying not to commit, and the response to the responsability of protect our ideals, make us worthy to give us other times.

Third, the problem of the hapiness in a fast world; sincerity is more important than money, politics, and others common dreams, and if we think we can escape of our misery trough of the dreams of another people, we are losing the race from the start. Really, we need love what we do for have a chance of happiness.

All I wanted was write a short comments, but in generally I must say that what I love in this movie is the idea of tender love and hopes in a better life, always a certain prospective if we have the force to fight for it.

He Ain`t Heavy He`s My Brother, a excuse to live

Today, as usual, I want to share with you a thunderbolt that struck me while thinking about something that would be important of counting.

Interestingly, this is an image that never really I saw, I remember that my mother conveyed me the impression of the simple and rather startling words of a child carrying his little brother, just a couple of years younger than him, at some remote part of africa (maybe Mozambique), where it is usual charge of younger siblings, but was different in those circumstances, when the little brother was, as the smallest, in clear conditions of malnutrition.

The photo went around the world and the truth is for me there isn`t much more pictures more beautiful, cause it reflects a powerfull love, an every day and foolproof love of brother.

I think I can meditate that many times, we can make a difference with a little sign, a smile, a hug, a caress, a glance, a word of encouragement... these expressions externalize a meaning of our will, the disposition of give without expecting anything in return more than the posibility of other heart, if we put it in service of a life in this sense.

We never must tire of trying to live as the child that was carring his brother on his back. Why? What kind of reasons exist for pay attention to this propose? The answer can be in the words of the boy with no name in Nowhere: "He Ain`t Heavy, He`s My Brother".

Sometimes, the life seems more difficult than it is really, but we don`t have idea of the the world out there waiting for us, sometimes we are more concerned about our own, and we don`t understand that life have more colours if we accept to others.

My eyes in this day

The Scotish music group Travis made a really great work called "The Boy with No Name", fifth studio album that was released in 7th may of 2007 in UK, by its members Fran Healy, Dougie Payne, Andie Dunlop and Neil Primrose.

Although enters 60 (low position), the song My Eyes is a precious work of art. Was composed by the vocalist, Healy, thinking in his first child not yet born, Clay, when he knew he would become to father.

Is characterized as an emotional song of welcome to his son, expressing his fears and hopes in front of a new life that come to this world... all supplemented by a beautiful melody with quiet bars.

I think if I would know that I`ll be father I would be the most happy man on the earth... it means, a child represents all in your life since the conception, then the born, a life in your hands as a gift of heaven. Try to be a good father must be so complicated, and means a hard work.

In this modern world of liquid love, maybe we need more examples of real relations of unconditional (without anything being required in return), unexpectable (anymore to want than the wonderful of unknown co-creation) and uncontrollable (you can do nothing to prevent it) love, because although always we speak about authority, there is no authority without this kind of love which I referred; it gives the bauty of parenthood that we can discover in the presence of the unconditional love that sustains life itself.

Onlly love and warm teaching is able to forming free men and women who are not afraid to believe in their hearts and give its to others!

Happy day, dad, and thanks for all your love.