"Türk" Raymond Westerling (1919-1987)

"Türk" lakablı Raymond Pierre Paul Westerling II. Dünya Savaşı sonrası Endonezya'da yaptığı "kanlı" bastırma harekatlarıyla tanınan Hollandalı bir "komando" imiş. Ben "Türk"ü, biyografisini yazmak için bilgi toplayan bir tarihçi olan Frederik Willems'in Mete Tunçay'a gönderdiği bir e-postadan öğrendim*:

"Westerling [31 Ağustos] 1919'da babasının beş kuşaktır yaşadığı İstanbul'da doğmuş. Kendisi de 1941'de Nazi Almanya'sına karşı dövüşmek üzere Hollanda ordusuna katılmak için İngiltere'ye gidinceye kadar İstanbul'da yaşamış...Westerling'i solcular bir savaş suçlusu olarak görür ve menfur sayarlar, sağcılar ise sertliğinden ötürü ona bir kahraman gözüyle bakarlardı. Zamanın Hollanda gazetelerinde onun Türkiye kökenine çok dikkat çekilmiştir. Cesaretinin bundan geldiği ileri sürülmüş ve kendisine 'Türk' takma adı verilmiştir. Westerling 1987'de Hollanda'da öldüğünde İstanbul'daki ailesini bir daha hiç görmemişti. Ne yazık ki Türkiye'deki gençliği hakkında hemen hiçbir şey bilinmemektedir...Ben sadece onun 1925-1936 yıllarında St. Michel ve St.Jozef okullarına gittiğini biliyorum... Beyoğlu'nda, Cadde-i Kebir'de oturmuş. Babası antikacıymış. Pendik'de de bir yazlık evleri varmış."

Mete Tunçay bu konuda bilgisi olanların tuncay@bilgi.edu.tr adresine yazmalarını istiyor.

* Toplumsal Tarih, Aralık 2008, s 11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Westerling

Business Plot (1933)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Business Plot ... was a political conspiracy in 1933 wherein wealthy businessmen and corporations plotted a coup d’état to overthrow United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934, the Business Plot was publicly revealed by retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testifying to the McCormack-Dickstein Congressional Committee. In his testimony, Butler claimed that a group of men had approached him as part of a plot to overthrow Roosevelt in a military coup... In their final report, the Congressional committee supported Butler's allegations of the existence of the plot, but no prosecutions or further investigations followed, and the matter was mostly forgotten.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/Coup.htm

Recession: When the money goes, so does the toxic wife

An article appeared in the telegraph.co.uk on 09 December 2008 first defines "Toxic Wife" and then claims that the number of divorces has increased since the recent financial crisis.

Recession: When the money goes, so does the toxic wife
As the recession worsens, a lot of rich men are finding their gold-digging wives are taking to their heels
By Tara Winter Wilson

"The Toxic Wife, first identified in these pages almost two years ago, is a particular and terrifying species.

Not to be confused with the stay-at-home mother who selflessly devotes herself to the upbringing of her children, with all the housework and domestic chores that entails, the Toxic Wife is the woman who gives up work as soon as she marries, ostensibly to create a stable home environment for any offspring that might come along, but who then employs large numbers of staff to do all the domestic work she promised to undertake, leaving her with little to do all day except shop, lunch and luxuriate.

Having married her wealthy husband with his considerable salary uppermost in her mind, the Toxic Wife simply does not do "for richer, for poorer". Little Dorrit, she ain't."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/3527803/Recession-When-the-money-goes-so-does-the-toxic-wife.html

Profiling Windows C++ Applications with Microsoft Excel

My article on profiling applications was published online by the Dr Dobb's Journal on 14 June 2006:
Profiling Windows C++ Applications with Microsoft Excel
http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/189401136