Oscar Wilde Polemics in Parliament: Who is Oscar Wilde; Person or Award?
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In the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) Constitution Commission where the summary of proceedings as to lifting parliamentary immunity, Oscar Wilde polemics has taken place among the MPs.
Upon Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Mardin MP, Prof. Dr. Mithat Sancar trying to quote from Oscar Wilde, Justice and Development Party (AKP) Tokat MP, Zeyid Aslan said “Who is he”.
After AKP İstanbul MP Halis Dalkılıç said, “Do you have an example from this culture in your memory Mr. Mithat?”, AKP Çorum MP Ahmet Sami Ceylan joined the debate saying “Quote bit from Necip Fazıl too”.
The dialogues in subject reflected in the minute as follows:
Mithat Sancar (Mardin) – I have difficulty to understand some reasonings. Please, no one shall take it personally but I want to convey you a phrase of Oscar Wilde.
Zeyid Aslan (Tokat) – Who?
Mithat Sancar – Oscar Wilde.
Zeyid Aslan – Who is he? (Noises)
Mithat Sancar – Then do some research, what can I do about that? I can’t lecture on that, we don’ have time but if there is anyone needing it, we will hold a special session. I taught at university for 30 years, I can do that here too for a few months.
President of the Commission - Let us think about it.
Halis Dalkılı. (İstanbul) – Are there examples from this culture, this civilization in your memory Mr. Mithat?
Mithat Sancar: No problem, yes, I can tell.
Ahmet Sami Ceylan (Çorum) – Could you give an example Necip Fazıl? This civilization has values as well. Given an example from it.
President of the commission: Fellows…
Mithar Sancar: Mr. President…
Meral Danış Beştaş (Adana) – Mr. President, could you please interfere.
President of the commission – Let’s listen but when matters out of subjects are started to be spoken, everyone return joke with a joke.
Mithat Sancar – You may feel offended
Ahmet Sami Ceylan – No, why would we be offended?
Mithat Sancar – Then listen.
Ahmet Sami Ceylan – Quote a bit from Necip Fazıl.
Mithat Sancar – Then good, listen, if you are not offended then listen.
President of the commission – Fellows, please wait for Mr. Mithat, first let him finish his speech.
Halis Dalkılıç – We are offended of you being alienated so much to this civilization.
Mithat Sancar – Just listen for a second. He exactly tells this. First listen, then the evaluation is up to you. Discuss whether Oscar Wilde is national or not, but please contemplate on this words of him for two minutes, then shout and scream all you like.
“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below the intellect.”
It is as simple as that. Now if you just reverse all the concepts right here, you will be exhibiting an example of struggle between brute force and brute reason. Let us speak of this again dear MPs: Ok, there was a resolution process, it ended, it shouldn’t have ended. Why did it end?
(…)
President of the council – Let’s speak over the matter.
Mithat Sancar – We are essentially speaking over the matter.
President of the council – I mean, of course, remotely related, closely related.
Mithat Sancar – Tell this to the ones bringing terror to the agen…And don’t you depart from impartiality Mr. President. We are in a very precious juncture.
Adnan Günnar (Trabzon) – Talk about Oscar awards.
Ayşe Acar Başaran (Batman) – He said “Oscar Wilde”!
Burcu Çelik Özkan (Muş) – Oscar Wilde, Wilde. He is not some sort of award, he is a man named “Oscar Wilde”. (EKN/TK)
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Ahmet Necip Fazıl Kısakürek Ahmet Necip Fāzıl Kısakürek (May 26, 1904 – May 25, 1983) was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, and secular activist. He was noticed by the French philosopherHenri Bergson, who later became his teacher and Al-Ghazali, a Muslim theologian, jurist and mystic. He studied in Paris for one year with the scholarship provided by the Ministry of National Education (1924–1925), until the scholarship was cancelled. After returning home in 1926, he worked at Holland, Osmanlı and İş Banks (1926–1939), and gave lectures at the Faculty of Linguistics and History and Geography and the State Conservatoire in Ankara and the Academy of Fine Arts in İstanbul (1939–1942). Having established a relation with the press in his youth, Kısakürek quit civil service to earn his living from writing and magazines. Appropriating his anti-semitic ideas from Europe, Kısakürek regarded Jews as the corrupting element within Western civilization, and described them as the originator of Marxism and capitalism. He held them responsible for the early conflicts between Muslims and the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Although referenced frequently for Islamic views and against secular political views nowadays, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek never upheld any beliefs and declarations against these views and the newly established republic. In contrast,he was very passionate regarding secularity in Turkey. Source: Wikipedia |