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Paradoxical Leadership and the Fine Ethics of Politics
A leader is expected to be strong and humble, decisive and attentive all at once. Paradoxical leadership is the art of balancing these contradictory expectations of politics.
From Bursa Girls’ High School to the Top of TU Berlin: Prof. Dr. Fatma Deniz
Fatma Deniz, who graduated top of her class from Bursa Girls’ High School, was elected president of TU Berlin after Caltech and Berkeley. The story of a scientist building a bridge between the brain and artificial intelligence.
Lemon Sellers and Cashiers
“If need be, I’ll sell lemons” has given way to “I’ll become a cashier”. On the debate over the lieutenants expelled from the Turkish army, from the pen of a writer who lost his job by emergency decree: the value of labour and the loss of merit.
We All Died, They Only Buried You
On the first anniversary of the earthquake, a letter written from a tent among the ruins to a family that was lost. A personal testimony of grief, neglect and loneliness.
A Letter to My Brother
A letter to a friend with whom the author took his oath at the Military Academy, who has spent years in prison because he was where he had been ordered to be on the night of 15 July.
I Was a Little Child
Children who froze to death under the rubble, who went out to buy bread and never came back, who could not get treatment because their father was in prison. A lament written in their voices.
Time of the Wolf and a New Social Contract
What happens if there is no state? Haneke’s film “Time of the Wolf” and the tent days after the 1999 earthquake point, after the 2023 earthquakes, to the need for a new social contract.
I Am Under the Rubble
“My name is Conscience. I am under the rubble in Turkey.” An essay that tells, in the voice of conscience, of the delayed aid, the soldiers who did not come and the rescue teams who arrived too late after the earthquake of 6 February.
Being a Decree-Law Dismissee
Although those dismissed by emergency decree come from every part of society, they are branded with a single label. The author draws attention to a silent society and to ongoing social exclusion.
The 20 July Uprising in Germany
Every year on 20 July the German army takes its oath in memory of the 1944 attempt on Hitler’s life. A tradition that honours a coup attempt invites comparison with the 15 July narrative in Turkey.
Going Down in History: Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague
Reinhard Heydrich, one of the planners of the Holocaust, became one of the most feared officials of the Nazi regime through his brutality. The story of the man nicknamed the “Butcher of Prague”, in the Going Down in History series.
Going Down in History: Dietrich von Choltitz, the Saviour of Paris
Hitler ordered that if Paris fell, nothing but rubble should be left behind. General Dietrich von Choltitz, known for his absolute obedience, refused to go down in history as “the man who destroyed Paris”.
