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Silencing the guns matters, but lasting peace requires independent verification, victims’ rights and democratisation. Examples from Sierra Leone to Colombia and from Northern Ireland to Chechnya show who pays the price when these safeguards are missing.
The Framework Law adopted in August 2026 grants conditional impunity to members of an armed organisation but opens no similar path for opponents who have never used violence. For the author, the problem is that the law applies differently depending on who you are.
Most of the news from Turkey is bad. But there are also release orders, acquittals and landmark court rulings; none of them happens of its own accord; they are the result of people’s persistence.
Algorithms guide us, narrow our options and tell us, “Don’t worry, I’m thinking for you.” A look at our relationship with artificial intelligence through the lens of paternalistic leadership.
Who determines the leadership of a main opposition party, delegates or courts? The ruling of absolute nullity against the CHP gives concrete form in Turkey to the thesis that democracies are eroded not by tanks but by tools that look legal.
As voices rise in politics, meaning narrows. While the extremes multiply, the centre first shortens its sentences, then lowers its voice. Could conciliatory leadership be the way to rebuild the bridges being dismantled?
After the school attack in Kahramanmaraş, the state acted fastest in the digital sphere: thousands of access blocks, detentions, a broadcast ban. But the question of which information was silenced and which was allowed to circulate remains unanswered.
After the Kahramanmaraş attack, the debate shifted to video games and social media. Yet the first question is this: how did five pistols in a police chief inspector’s home end up in the hands of a 14-year-old?
In modern wars even the stronger side cannot win a decisive victory. The US and Israeli war against Iran has also stalled in a state of neither war nor peace without reaching its goals; every side will declare itself the winner, and the peoples will be the losers.
“Politics is the art of fleecing the people” is a crude saying, but it captures a truth: instead of denying reality, modern politics packages part of it and leaves the rest in the dark. On the trinity of good news, patience and foreign powers.
Plato’s Republic and Nizam al-Mulk’s Siyasatnama ask the same question: How long can order survive without justice? Power that grows through extraordinary powers does not strengthen the state; it inflates it like a balloon ready to burst.
How does the far right rise in a modern, prosperous and democratic country? Economic anxiety, the resentment of the East, the migration debate, the pandemic and the energy shock are all intertwined.
Children who lose their families in the middle of war and cross borders barefoot may, if no one takes care of them, become the young people most easily recruited by tomorrow’s radical organisations. How can the vicious circle of terrorism be broken?
Germany and Japan emerged from the war in ruins and within a few decades joined the world’s largest economies. Why has Turkey, which has not experienced a major war on its own soil for a hundred years, not made the same leap?
Does talking about justice change anything in an environment where lawlessness has taken root? For the author, the greatest danger is the belief, growing stronger every day, that speaking will come to nothing.
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