Ceyda Turan

Titulaire d’une maîtrise en développement international de l’Université de Londres (SOAS) en Angleterre, Ceyda détient également un diplôme en science politique et développement international de l’Université McGill. Originaire de Turquie et ayant étudié dans le monde en développement, elle connaît bien les enjeux du développement international. Elle a un intérêt marqué pour des questions touchant les droits humains et a entre autres collaboré au Kurdish Human Rights Project de Londres comme traductrice en plus d’assumer le poste de secrétaire de la section locale d’Amnistie Internationale à SOAS. Avant de se joindre à l’Institut des politiques sociales et de la santé de l’université McGill en tant qu’assistante de recherche et de communication, elle travaillait au sein du programme immigration et employabilité d’Alternatives. Elle continue contribuer au Journal Alternatives.

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In Rememberance

Ceyda Turan, 20 August 2008
Palestine, Alternatives International Journal, Culture
Palestine mourns over the death of Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s national poet, who became the internationally acclaimed voice of the Palestinian people in their struggle for statehood. Darwish was born in the village of Al-Barweh in what is now Galilee. He experienced dispossession, occupation and exile at an early age. When he was six, his family fled to Lebanon upon an Israeli assault on their village. The following year, when they tried to return to their occupied homeland, their village had been destroyed and two settlements had been erected on their land. They ended up (...)

End of the Unipolar World

Ceyda Turan, 22 September 2008
International Affairs, Alternatives International Journal, Russia
08.08.2008 marked the end of a unipolar world. The launch of the Beijing Olympics highlighted the re-emergence of China as a world power and the end of US hegemony. However Russia’s invasion of Georgia- and the emergence of Southern powers show that the post-American world will not necessarily be a bipolar one. On the first day of the Olympics, as the eyes of the world turned to China, Russia invaded Georgia- an American ally. For the first time since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Moscow rolled over a sovereign state. The message to West-leaning countries in the region (...)

India Celebrates Gandhi’s Anniversary with Smoking Ban

Ceyda Turan, 26 October 2008
International, India, Alternatives International Journal
India has become the latest nation to introduce a smoking ban in public places. The legislation put in place in an attempt to fight tobacco use took effect on Gandhi’s birthday on October 2. The legislation, forbidding 1.2 billion people from smoking, represents the world’s biggest smoking ban. The Republic of Ireland was the first country to institute an outright public smoking ban in the world. Officials hope an extensive anti-smoking campaign and tighter enforcement will make the ban successful, but the country’s health minister, Anubamani Ramadoss, knows getting the country’s (...)

Demise of Doha, a Window of Opportunity?

Ceyda Turan, 20 August 2008
International, Free Trade, WTO, Alternatives International Journal
The World Trade Organization’s inappropriately named Doha “Development” Round was suspended indefinitely following the collapse of minister-level negotiations last month in Geneva. This stalemate is the latest in a round plagued by ministerial conference failures in Cancun 2003 and Geneva in 2006. Developing countries, having seen few signs of the development they were promised at the outset, have scored a halfway victory by not acquiescing to another asymmetrical trade deal. The real challenge, though, remains ahead of developing countries- and social movements all around the (...)

Canada, Progressive eh?

Ceyda Turan, 9 July 2008
Americas, Alternatives International Journal
In Canada, we like to think that we live in a progressive country, a country that stands for peace, human rights and democracy. However a quick look at Canada’s stance on some of the most pressing issues at home and abroad suggests otherwise. While Canada condemns other countries such as Zimbabwe and Sudan for their human rights violations, the Federal government does not shy away from violating the rights Canada’s indigenous population which includes some of the world’s most marginalized and frequently victimized peoples. The Canadian government has admitted to the United Nations (...)

Another World is Possible

Ceyda Turan, 1 May 2008
Alternatives International Journal
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Alternatives International Journal. Alternatives International is a network of alter-globalist social and political movements, founded in 2004 by 9 organizations from Brazil, Canada, France, India, Israel, Morocco, Niger, Palestine and South Africa. The journal is made possible through the participation of a volunteer editorial board, with written submissions from academics, activist, and journalists who believe that there is a need for a progressive, independent forum to inform, inspire and mobilize people to transform our communities and our (...)

Mahmoud Darwich : le poète du peuple

Ceyda Turan, 21 août 2008
Palestine, Le Journal des Alternatives, Culture

La Palestine pleure la mort de son grand poète, Mahmoud Darwich, qui a rendu l’âme le 9 août, trois jours après une opération cardiaque. Symbole national, ce poète était l’une des voix les plus respectées du peuple palestinien sur la scène internationale.

Hands Extended Across America

Ceyda Turan, 21 April 2009
Americas, International, Alternatives International Journal
“Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not, and will never be, at war with Islam,” declared President Barack Obama before the Turkish Grand National Assembly. His words came in stark contrast to former President George Bush’s use of the word “crusade” to describe America’s post 9/11 efforts. Barack Obama’s speech in Turkey was a significant step toward mitigating the tensions that have been stewing between the United States and the Muslim world. His remarks were a marked effort to shake off the mistrusts that characterized the Bush administration’s dealings with (...)

Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions

Ceyda Turan, 15 February 2009
Middle-East, International, Justice / Crime, Israel, Occupation, Alternatives International Journal
In July 2005, a large coalition of Palestinian civil society groups issued a call for a global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions strategy (BDS) against Israel until it complied with international human rights agreements and UN resolutions. Calling on people of conscience all over the world, these organizations propose a non-violent tactic similar to that of the African National Congress in their struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Israel’s dual laws for Jewish settlers and Palestinians, the segregation of roads and housing, and restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of (...)

A New Approach in Cyprus?

Ceyda Turan, 26 October 2008
International, Peace, Cyprus, Alternatives International Journal
Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat and his Greek Cypriot counterpart Demetris Christofias announced, on October 13, the cancellation of the annual military exercises after their meeting at the buffer zone in Nicosia within the framework of the comprehensive peace talks launched last month. The war games, the Turkish Cypriots’ Taurus and the Greek Cypriots’ Nikiforos, have frequently caused tension in the island. Cyprus was split along ethnic lines in 1974 when Turkey invaded in response to a coup by Athens-backed supporters of uniting the island with Greece. A UN patrolled (...)

Farmers’s Victory over Monsanto

Ceyda Turan, 26 October 2008
National (Québec, Canada), Agriculture, Canada, Alternatives International Journal
Ontario’s Northumberland and Quinte West farmers are celebrating a notable victory over Monsanto. The agricultural biotech giant is pulling out of the cow hormone business opposed by the farmers. Mansonto announced it was going to sell Posilac to drug maker Eli Lilly and Co. Posilac is the brand name of rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone), a genetically engineered hormone injected into dairy cows to increase milk production. There has been a lot of debate about how safe it is for humans- and for cows. The use of the hormone forces cows to raise milk production by about 10%, (...)

The Rising Tide Has Stopped Lifting Our Boats

Ceyda Turan, 10 June 2008
National (Québec, Canada), Canada, Alternatives International Journal
On Labour Day, Statistics Canada released its not so celebratory income report based on the 2006 Census. Accordingly, between 1980-2005, a growing economy did nothing to reverse the gap between the rich and the rest. Against a background of doubling GDP, median income among full-time Canadian workers has stagnated, while that of the top fifth rose by 16 per cent and the bottom fifth fell by 21 per cent. According to scholars Frenette, Green and Milligan, these figures under-estimate the gravity of the inequality, since they miss changes in the tails of the income distribution (...)

William Saroyan Centennial

Ceyda Turan, 22 September 2008
Americas, Alternatives International Journal, Culture
Internationally renowned Armenian-American novelist and playwright William Saroyan, was born in Fresno, California in 1908. He published over 4,000 literary works, including short stories, plays, and novels. His first published success was a short story called “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze.” In 1939 he became a playwright with “My Heart’s in the Highlands.” It was Saroyan’s optimistic, exuberant voice that made him a literary sensation at the age of 26. His stories celebrated optimism in the midst of the Great Depression. He created a prose style full of enthusiasm for (...)

Testimonies from Gaza

Ceyda Turan, 15 February 2009
Middle-East, International, Israel, Palestine, War, Alternatives International Journal
The story of Dr. Awni Jarw, aged 37. His house was bombed by the Israeli air force. “Yousef was 18 months-old. My wife and I had been waiting for him for so long. He brought us joy and love, with his laugh and smile. He filled our home with happiness. But all of a sudden, I found myself searching for his tiny body parts all over my house. When looking for the body parts of my wife, I found Yousef’s tiny feet, the lower part of my wife’s body, my baby’s head and hand. I collected them and put them together so that they can be united in death.” (Source: Palestine Monitor) Story of (...)

Putting Out a Fire

Ceyda Turan, 10 June 2008
Canada, Alternatives International Journal
The much-anticipated Bouchard-Taylor report on reasonable accommodation was published last month with its 37 recommendations calling for a review of interculturalism, immigration, secularism, and the theme of Quebec identity. The report was a positive one for minorities. It identified French Quebeckers’ anxiety of accommodation as a “crisis of perception.” It added that while the identity inherited from the French-Canadian past was perfectly legitimate, it could no longer occupy the Quebec identity space alone. “It mush hinge on the other identities present, in a spirit of (...)

Reasonable Accommodation Interview:

Ceyda Turan, Waleed Ziad, 1 May 2008
National (Québec, Canada), Canada, Alternatives International Journal
Imam Omar Koné is a Muslim congregation leader at the Masjid al-Iman in Montreal, and serves as a regional director of the worldwide Haqqani Foundation, which follows the Naqshbandi Sufi order. After graduating in microelectronics, he received his MBA with a specialization in technology, and has worked as an engineer for ten years. Originally from Mali, he has been very active in inter-faith dialogue throughout Montreal and regionally for a number of years. Imam Koné’s involvement with the issue of reasonable accommodation in Quebec began with his participation in panels organized (...)

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