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Essays, stories, portraits and testimonies: the human stories behind security and migration.
The advice to “send positive messages to the universe” is spreading fast on social media. The author questions the shallowness and social effects of movements that attribute everything to energy and thought frequencies.
Sometimes we grasp the weight of an event only when we see it in a painting or on a screen. The author recommends a film based on a true story that has not yet been released in Turkey.
A young specialist sergeant who risked his life in urban operations finds himself in Şırnak Prison after 15 July. “Specialist Sergeant Selim” is a story about soldiers branded “traitors”.
Woken by the alarm on the night of 15 July, the cadets followed their commanders into the streets without knowing what was happening. The story of young students caught between absolute obedience and the unknown.
The Netflix series “The Club” brought the events of 6–7 September 1955 and the experiences of Istanbul’s non-Muslims back onto the agenda. The author asks what moral should be drawn from this story today.
To some, the bandit is a folk hero resisting injustice; to others, a brigand who harms the people. The article offers a brief look at banditry through history, sociology and literature.
As the state’s mistreatment of a group becomes ordinary, society grows inured to victimhood. The author questions the process that leads from individual trauma to collective victimhood.
From Yeşilçam stories that rewarded the good to mafia series that glorify violence. The author questions the screen’s effect on public morality.
Every story of victimisation based on names, identities and beliefs hides humanity’s ancient weaknesses: envy, arrogance, anger, hatred. An essay on victimhood.
On his birthday, a young man asks his father for only one thing: to join the party’s youth organisation. The war veteran father’s answer is short and firm. A diary story about youth under totalitarian regimes.
The story of Australian military doctor Charles Ryan at Gallipoli was told to Türkiye’s first ambassador to Australia at a dinner. An extraordinary tale linking the two sides of the war.
Squid Game reached more than 111 million people in its first month. The author adapts the series’ dystopian world to our own social reality through “the managers and game masters”.
People fleeing Şırnak before the curfew in March 2016, and a child met at a checkpoint. “Navê te çi ye zarok?” What is your name, child? A testimony.
We fear rulers with a dictator's soul, yet we do not fear failing to live up to what being human demands. The author questions where fear comes from and how power is wielded without restraint.
Fear wounds the heart of the individual and breeds submission in society. The author questions how the culture of fear has become banal and the damage it does to individuals.
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