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Who will pay for this disaster?

BP(Beyond Petroleum) or its known old name British Petrol is the 4th biggest company in the world with 367 billion USD revenue, 21.1 billion USD profit. BP has 97,600 employees and their headquarters is in London.

BP doesn't only consist of petrol stations that we can always see on the side of the roads. BP Group is also the owner of well-known world brands such as BP, Aral, Astro, Castrol etc. but more importantly they are doing large scale operations such as finding, extracting oil, moving the oil that they find on earth with a large scale projects such as the Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline and refining oil in the huge refineries that they own. These activities make BP the 4th biggest company of the world.



So, is this giant petroleum corporation really environmentally friendly as they promote it in their website or an evil company that is consuming world resources and harming earth?







BP has lot's of oil searching and extracting platforms around the world. One of them is in the Gulf of Mexico. This platform executed by Transocean under BP supervision. On April 20th, an explosion started massive ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, now considered the largest offshore spill in U.S. history. The explosion killed 11 platform workers and injured 17 others. Since then BP hasn't been able to close the hole in the blowout preventer valves to stop the oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil is still leaking to the sea for more than a month and according to some news, BP might not be able to stop the leaking by August 2010.

In a permit submitted May 13, 2010, BP estimated a worst case spill of 240,000 barrels (10,000,000 US gallons; 38,000,000 litres) per day for each of the two relief wells that are being drilled in an attempt to stop the uncontrolled release.

Obviously this environment disaster affects a lot of people and speices that lives at the Gulf of Mexico. The most important question is how will BP pay for this or is there enough money to pay worth of destroying a specie in that region? I personally want BP to be punished with an astronomic fine and collapse. It might be a good lesson for all other petroleum companies to understand there are a consequence's to harming the earth.



Euro 2016 Adaylığı Ve Sonrası Yorumlar



EURO 2016 icin aday olmustu Turkiye. Daha onceki Avrupa Sampiyonasi yada Olimpiyat organizasyonu adayliklarimizi cok net olarak hatirlamasam da herhalde bu organizasyon icin adaylik sureci cok iyi bir sekilde yurutuldu. Bidde belirtilen stadyum projelerinin gercekligi ne kadar tartisilacak konumda olsa da basarili bir sekilde hazirlanmisti bircok proje. Tabi, Kayseri’nin organizasyona ev sahipligi yapacak en dogudaki Turkiye ili olmasi, Trabzon’un aday kentler arasinda gosterilmiyor olmasi, Bursa’daki stadyum projesinin Bursa Buyuksehir Belediyesi’nin gundeme getirdigi projelerden farkli olmasi gibi elestirilecek bir cok noktasi olmasina ragmen adayligin son gunune kadar cok guzel bir sekilde gelindi. Benim de okudugum UEFA’nin raporunda Turkiye’nin ozellikle sehirler arasi karayolu ulasimiyla ilgili ve havaalanlarinin kapasiteleriyle ilgili cekinceleri de bulunuyordu. Bunun yaninda sosyal sorumluluk ve cevre ile ilgili daha net bir vizyon cizmesi istenmisti. Ek olarak sadece 2 stadmun mevcutta bulunmasi ve ancak 1 tanesinin yapimina baslanmis olmasi, diger stadyumlarin sadece bir maketten ibaret olmasi eksi olarak yaziyordu puan hanemize.

Fransa’nin adaylik bidinde bulunan bircok stadyumun hali hazirda bulunan stadlar olmasi ve daha onemlisi Turkiye’nin en zayif noktasi olan sehirler arasindaki karayolu ve demiryollarinin Fransa’nin en onemli guclu yanlarinin olmasi bizlerin isini zorlastiriyordu.

Neticede daha cok isteyen bizler degil, projeleriyle daha hazir durumda olan Fransa Euro 2016′ya ev sahipligi yapacak. Umuyorum ki devlet kademesinde verilen sampiyonayi alamasak bile bu projelerin gerceklestirilecegi sozu tutulur, bizler de bu guzel tesislere kavusuruz.


Ancak konusulmasi gereken nokta, neden kaybettigimiz zaman ayaga kalkip alkislamayi bilemiyoruz biz? Ne zaman ki kaybetsek kesin bunun arkasinda donen bir dolap vardir. Bizi sevmeyenler, cekemeyenler vardir. Fenerbahce’nin sampiyon olamadigi zaman rakibimiz bizden daha iyi degildi demek yerine suclayacak adam arayan Aziz Yildirim gibi hemen zaten bize vermezler edebiyatina basladik bile. Zaten bizi Avrupali olarak gormuyorlar, Musluman oldugumuz icin bize vermiyorlar, UEFA Baskani Platini Fransiz oldugu icin turnuvayi Fransa kazandi vs… Platini kendi ulkesi aday oldugu icin oylamaya bile katilmadi Senez Erzik gibi. Turkiye’nin turnuvayi alamamasinin en buyuk nedeninin ozellikle karayolu, demiryolu ulasiminda cok yetersiz oldugu, havaalanlarimizin da yeterli kapasiteye sahip olmadigini dusunuyorum ben de.


Artik fakir edebiyatini birakip bundan sonra basvuracagimiz organizasyonlar icin bu adaylik surecinden dersler cikarip, eksiklerimizi giderirsek o zaman 2020 Avrupa Sampiyonasi da duzenleyebiliriz, hatta belki bir gun olimpiyatlari da...



Winter in Wellington


When I applied for AIESEC New Zealand Member Committee I thought that New Zealand is a tropical country in the north of Australia, somewhere in Pacific. Apparently I am not really good at geography as I thought Cambodia is in Africa, Sri Lanka in Asia. Hang on, it’s in Asia. I’m confused again.

Anyway when I arrived in New Zealand in the end of August, it was autumn and pretty cold. I was very disappointed as I was expecting the 4 seasons to be sunny and tropical but it was time to face reality. Luckily November, December and January is summer but it's always windy in Wellington. In the southern hemisphere, seasons are exactly opposite of the northern hemisphere and winter has already started in New Zealand. The average temperature is around 10 degrees on May and getting colder.


The biggest problem is not temperature. Istanbul is much colder than Wellington in the winter but New Zealanders haven’t heard about the word “Insulation” in the buildings. It’s very difficult to see a house with double glasses and the worst is there is no central heating system in the houses. It’s usually possible to feel Wellington’s blowing wind inside of the house.

If anyone wants to come to New Zealand choose cities in the North like Auckland or come here in summer while everybody is freezing in northern hemisphere.



Orca Rescue

I love how people in New Zealand love nature and everything in nature. It’s hard to understand how someone can ignore peoples lives while someone is trying to save animals.
65 miners had died in the last 3 months in Turkey and our Prime minister declared that; it’s the fate of this occupation. However aerating and early warning systems coast roughly 250.000€. That can reduce accidents by 95%. So, it shouldn’t be fate to invest for labour safety. While we were talking about our miners fate some other people were trying to change fate.

Orcas known as killer whales are one of the whale species that lives in New Zealand. Even though they known as killer whales they are not considered a threat to humans. As they are Besiktas supporters with white spots on their black body they look more sympathetic to me. There is an orca research in Northland, New Zealand that we can visit on http://www.orcaresearch.org

This orca was chasing something, gone to beach and was stranded over there. Fortunately Dr. Ingrid Wisser who is an orca researcher and her team tried to help this orca to meet his family again. Obviously it’s not easy to save a 6 tons whale struggling go back to ocean again but the result is amazing.