‘Beyond the Coast’ Archives
A World View…
BEYOND THE COAST Tarik Ayasun turk1949@comcast.net I read a number of international newspapers, magazines and watch and listen to international news every day. It is important to be aware of the international environment because one way or the other all international events affect our day to day lives here in America. We do not live in a [...]
What happened to humanity?
BEYOND THE COAST Tarik Ayasun turk1949@comcast.net There is a railroad box car perched upon a trailer in the parking lot of the Marco Island Charter Middle School. It belongs to the Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida. The day it was brought to the campus, I walked around it, looked under it, walked up [...]
Dulce et Decorum est…
BEYOND THE COAST Tarik Ayasun turk1949@comcast.net Spc. Dennis Weichel, 29, of the Rhode Island National Guard died in Afghanistan last week with what the Pentagon news release said was “due to injuries received in a noncombat related incident.” I did not know Spc. Dennis Weichel. I do not know his family or the three young [...]
Living with traditions and proverbs
BEYOND THE COAST Tarik Ayasun turk1949@comcast.net My friends and my business associates are used to it by now. I still remain faithful to a lot of Turkish traditions I grew up with and use hundreds of proverbs which apply to daily life. I learned these traditions and proverbs through my interactions with the elders in my family, especially [...]
TIME TO GO MR. ASAD
BEYOND THE COAST by Tarik Ayasun turk1949@comcast.net Since the March of 2011, news from Syria sometimes dominated the news and other times played second fiddle to the domestic political scene here in America. Unfortunately, most Americans may not be able to locate Syria on a map of the Middle East, let alone on a world map. The [...]
THE VIRGIN MARY’S HOUSE, Miracles and more
Tarik Ayasun turk1949@comcast.net There are a few traditions and places which are holy to both Christians and Muslims. One such place is “The House of the Virgin” in Western Turkey located in a nature park between Ephesus and Seljuk and believed to be the last residence of Virgin Mary (Meryemana or Mother Miriam in Turkish.) This place [...]
Moving to Marco Island…
BEYOND THE COAST Tarik Ayasun turk1949@comcast.net It was a cold and dreary New Jersey February in 1985, when I flew down to sunny Trinidad and Tobago to visit my customer and personal friend Everard Scott. He met me as usual at the Port-of-Spain airport and drove me to the upside down Hilton where I would spend the week. The hotel is called [...]
Connecting Continents… Crossing Bridges…
BEYOND THE COAST Tarik Ayasun turk1949@comcast.net Everyone must know by now that I was born and lived the first 20 years of my life in Istanbul; a mysterious, photogenic and historic city on the shores of the Bosporus Straits, that divides the continents of Europe and Asia. As a young boy growing up in Istanbul, the only way we [...]
YEAR IN REVIEW…
BEYOND THE COAST Tarik Ayasun turk1949@comcast.net We are coming to the end of another year in our lives. In a few days, it is going to be a new year; it will take at least a month before we get used to writing 2012 on our documents; we will all be a year older and hopefully a little wiser. I am a believer in the importance of how our [...]
Who will dominate the middle east?
Tarik Ayasun turk1949@comcast.net A new and strange battle for domination of the Islamic world is being fought in the Middle East. On one side is Shiite Iran, on the other side is Sunni Turkey and the battlefield is Syria. Why is this an important battle and what will it mean for the geopolitics of the area? Iranian Supreme Leader [...]
