AÇIK KİTAP'TAN Bir Madde Olarak ''Militarizm''

Militarizmi anlamak istiyorsak, gözümüzü, savaşmanın meşru kılındığı, maddi-manevi savaş hazırlıklarına yoğun emek ve kaynak harcanan 'barış' dönemlerine ve 'sivil' alanlara doğru çevirmemiz şart.

Ayşe Gül ALTINAY

Biamag - Cumartesi, 10/09/2011;  Açık radyo,18/08/2011.

Militarizm, İlk olarak 1860'larda Fransız anarşist düşünür Pierre Joseph Proudhon tarafından kullanılmaya başlanan 'militarizm', en geniş anlamıyla, bir toplumun, bireyin veya kurumun kendisini 'sivil' değerlerle değil 'askerî' değerlerle tanımlaması, sosyal, kültürel, siyasi ve ekonomik pratiklerini bu değerler etrafında örmesidir diyebiliriz.

Non-Muslim soldiers’ experiences in the Turkish army

ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ,  - 21/09/2011

Last year, writer Tuba Çandar published a biography of Hrant Dink. In addition to interviewing a number of people who knew Dink, Çandar also talked to Dink himself for the book: In that interview, he narrated his memories of his military service.

Do Ask, Must Tell: Turkey's military doesn't just discriminate against gays -- it humiliates them.

PIOTR ZALEWSKI | 04/12/2010

ISTANBUL — As the United States considers repealing the ban on gays serving in the military, they might want to consider consulting their allies in NATO with whom they serve in Afghanistan and Iraq. The vast majority of the organization's 28-member states allow gays to serve openly. But Turkey offers an instructive, and extreme, contrast.
Where the U.S. "don't ask, don't tell" policy has been the subject of fierce political debate since it was launched by Bill Clinton's administration two decades ago, Turkey's ban has seen few public challenges. When Turkey's minister for women's and family affairs, Selma Aliye Kavaf, declared this March that homosexuality is a "disease that needs treatment," she wasn't just pandering to popular belief; she was repeating the official stance of the Turkish armed forces. Indeed, Turkey's gay conscripts are routinely forced to endure humiliation and abuse at the hands of their country's military authorities.