Sunday, August 4, 2013

Fatih University Open, 2-3-4 March 2013, Istanbul/Turkey

Fatih University Open, 2-3-4 March 2013, Istanbul/Turkey

Round 1: THW ban beggary
Round 2: TH regrets an active debater's life
Round 3: THBT media should show full horror of war
Round 4: THBT leftist groups in universities should take passive political actions
Round 5: This house, as Al-Qaida, would transport their sources to Africa
Round 6: THW not provide free health care
Quarter Final: THW allow deadly fights for show/entartainment purposes (i.e. Gladiator fights)
Semi Final: THBT Abdullah Ocalan should commit suicide for solution of Kurdish Question.
Final: THBT welfare state is an obstacle on the road to Marxism.


CA: Mehmet Fatih Özmısırcı, Galatasaray University
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Cankaya University Open, 29-30-31 April 2013, Ankara/Turkey

Cankaya University Open, 29-30-31 April 2013, Ankara/Turkey 

Round 1: THW hire LGBT individuals for temporary and contracted works which the state get in touch with citizens.
Round 2: THBT AK Party (Justice and Development Party) should carry on the peace process* secret from opposition parties. 
*Peace process is a term which is used by Turkish media for ongoing negotiations between PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) and Republic of Turkey. During negotiations, PKK draws back beyond the Turkey - Iraq border and there are not any clashes between Turkish army and PKK since Abdullah Ocalan gave the command of drawing back because of AK Party's democratization promises.
Round 3: THBT hitting on someone who has a girlfriend/boyfriend is wrong. 
Round 4: THW take religious beliefs as an extenuating circumstance for the crimes which is commited under the influence of religious beliefs.
Round 5: THW reward the local people who capture (dead or alive) or denounce Al-Qaida militants. 
Quarter Final: THBT referandums to become a colony should be held in African countries.
Semi Final: This house, as Kurdish people, would reject Abdullah Öcalan's solution plan for Kurdish Question which offers unity with Turkish people under Islamic religious values. 
Final:
INFO: Trotskyist view prioritises international proletariat movement rather than Stalinist view's suggestion of socialist rule in one country.
THW be Trotskyist.


CA: Mahir Durmaz, Istanbul Commerce University
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3rd Bogazici University Open* (Melda Open) 6-7 April 2013, Istanbul/Turkey

3rd Bogazici University Open* (Melda Open) 6-7 April 2013, Istanbul/Turkey 

Round 1: THW allow immigrants to vote in the country where they live.(Full citizenship is still not given to immigrants)
Round 2: There is a pill which prevents you from falling in love. THW take the pill. 
Round 3: THW constitute police forces only from women
Round 4: THBT in order to continue to eat meat, individuals should be required to slaughter their own meat animal.
Round 5: THW stay friends with the ex-boyfriend/girlfriend
Semi-Final: This house, as the states of Arab League, would give the unconditional right of asylum to Palestinians. 
Final: It is irrefutably proved that God does not exist. THBT this should not be declared to public.
CA: Melda Eren, Bogazici University


*Participants should have reached final at least one nationwide tournament in order to debate at Bogazici Open.
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