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The world has more autocratic leaders, stronger right-wing parties and more polarised societies. The uncertainty created by crises feeds the search for a “strong leader”; the antidote is access to accurate information.
Behind the debate over the lieutenants lies a deeper issue: the militarism Turkey has carried since the late Ottoman period. A reading that stretches from the birth of the idea of the nation in arms to the coups.
Tesla has presented a humanoid robot for housework. Robots will make life easier, but they also confront us with questions of responsibility, waste, ethics and the environment for which we need to be prepared.
Turkey and the EU are like two lovers who can never be united. Turkey has drifted away from the membership process, the rule of law has declined and it has moved closer to Russia. Even so, the author argues, the EU should not give up on Turkey.
Mothers do not see their children’s faults. So why do states look at their allies’ cruelty with the same blindness? From the Uyghurs to Gaza, from Ukraine to Myanmar: on selective conscience.
Merih Demiral’s grey wolf sign at EURO 2024 split Europe in two. The wolf appears in the mythology of many peoples, from Rome to Lithuania and from Chechnya to Scandinavia. So when does a symbol become a tool of manipulation?
Imagine a world in which no one can lie: every thought is spoken instantly and no one suspects anyone. A look at the place of lying in human relationships through the film “The Invention of Lying”.
“It’s alive, auntie, alive!” You can deceive without telling a lie. Through jokes and sketches, this piece shows how we are misled with true statements by loading different meanings onto the same word.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered its third year. Millions of Ukrainians have been displaced, Western support has turned into a “favour”, and Russia has revived its economy despite sanctions.
People are predisposed to believe, and liars know it. Ways of spotting lies and “deception with the truth” in everyday life, using the methods of former FBI agent John R. Schafer.
A lie is not merely the opposite of the truth. We can be deceived by a look, by clothing, even by entirely true sentences. The first article in the “Psychology of Lying” series enters the labyrinth of the lie.
After every election, Aziz Nesin’s quip that “60% of us are stupid” goes round again. The story of the remark leads back to the 1982 Constitution; the real issue is decision-making shaped by fear.
While war continues in Ukraine, the Middle East is ablaze again. As leaders and the media fan the flames, is the world reliving 1914, when an assassination started a great war, or 9/11, which fuelled Islamophobia?
The Republic is a hundred years old. But its record on democracy, press freedom, judicial independence and minority rights adds a bittersweet loneliness to the joy of the celebration.
How meaningful is it to talk about terror and terrorists the morning after a night of massacre in Gaza? On the point where words and humanity end in the face of images of children’s bodies.
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