Abdul Turay

Book published 10.12.12


A Black President for a Small White Nation II
An Intellectual Casino
The Great Migration
Two Tribes About the Estonian British communities
Immigration Policy
On the Meikar Affair A political scandal Involving money laundering
The invisible beautiful Estonian film
The Austrian Factor On Austrian economics
Galojan won't be coming home soon.
On Veerpalu.
Survival of the fitness
The view from London On the Euro
White Riots More on London Riots
City under siege London Riots
The end of Newspapers
China Rising
Why the world is silent about the Estonian election Playing around with higher education
Response from Education Minister (ed note: in Estonian, will translate into English when I have time)
Right is Right ?
Why I write in Estonia Sotsid are not freaksWhy are the Social Democrats still failing? Room 101A comparison between British kids and Estonian kids Go WestWhere is Estonia exactly? Venture Capitalist Allan Martinson view Follow up story Musician Jaan Tätte view Follow up story The…

A black president for a small white nation II Why Estonia and Obama need each other. Published Postimees 14 December 2012 
Four years ago I outraged the nation when I suggested in my first Postimees article what Michelle Obama the president's wife might be thinking if Estonia got into trouble.
“Ah yes Estonia that small-minded little white nation....to hell with them.”
That article was about a fair dialogue between Estonia and black people.
I am not going to talk about that here, suffice to say progress has been made, and I have to admit after four years I believe far from being hostile, Obama will look kindly upon Estonia precisely because of his African heritage, here is why.
We have seen Obama appearing to conspire with Russia's leadership at a nuclear security summit in Seoul, South Korea, March 2012.
“It’s important for him to give me space,”  he said in a ´hot mike´ moment with outgoing President Medvedev. The him in question being Putin.
The foreign policy experts were …

An Intellectual Casino Published Postimees 15 October 2012
Imagine an animal. It is grey, has eight arms, a primitive brain, and suckers, lives in the sea. It looks like an octopus, it's mother and father are octopuses, its children are octopuses. But it is not an octopus. Let's call it a non-octopus.
Now imagine an investment firm. It has grown at a phenomenon rate over 10 years. Its sleekly dressed, oily, smooth talking, Russian-speaking owners make huge amounts of money. Most of its customers lose money and they lose ALL their money. But lets not call it a scam, let's call in a respectable brokerage company working hard to make money for it clients. It is not in any case an octopus.
Tallinn is the global headquarters for a venerable institution, which for legal purposes we will call Non-octopus Forex company. It is all part of the retail forex market which in Estonia is controlled by Russian-speaking Estonian who started out in the 90s. They allied with Russian from the mo…

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In English

A first for Estonia: An elected Black Politician
Christian Science Monitor 26 Oct 2013

Turay to take seat on Tallinn city council 
Published ERR 22 Oct 2012

Mixed Results for Tallinn City Council 
Published ERR 21 Oct 2012 

The expat running for city council 
Published ERR 16 August 2013 

Estonian gets its first Black candidate for city councillor
Published ERR 16 August 2013 

Interview with Estonian World 
6 June 2013 Estonia World 


Eesti Keeles

I am not a natural social democrat
Eesti Päevaleht 25 October 2013

Abdul Turay joins the Social Democratic Party
Postimees 24 October 2013 


Social Democrats send Abdul Turay to the city Council 
Eesti Päevaleht 23 October 2013 

Abdul Turay gets into the City Council
Postimees 22 Oct 2013

I will represent the views of the whole community in government
Postimees 16 August 2013

Kross: we were also interested in Turay
Postimees 16 August 2013 

Abdul Turay to be a candidate for the social democrats 
Delfi 16 August 2013

Columnist Abdul Turay to be a candidate on t…

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The English Language version of Small white nation is due out latter this year.