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Like the lymph nodes in our immune system, society has defence mechanisms that stop problems before they spread. The third part of the Collective Consciousness series describes this “bulletproof armour”.
The mentality of “long live the snake that doesn't bite me” prepares the ground for the erosion of values such as democracy and justice. The second part of the Collective Consciousness series deals with moral values.
A single soldier's isolated action cannot form a line of defence; societies, too, can only stand firm by uniting around a collective consciousness. The first part of the Collective Consciousness series.
Footage of people stopping to pray in the middle of a motorway spread on social media. The author argues that an understanding of religion stripped of spirituality is an individual and social security problem.
The photograph of Havva Bekâr resisting the plateau road in Çamlıhemşin has not faded from memory. The author questions the gendarmerie's recent PR campaigns and its relationship with citizens.
In investigations, the drum sits in the gendarmerie station's lap, but the stick is in someone else's hand. The third part of The First Door: The Gendarmerie series compares the resources of the police and the gendarmerie.
With urbanisation and social transformation, law enforcement units too must become differentiated. The second part of The First Door: The Gendarmerie series discusses the idea of a “civilian gendarmerie”.
The past of thousands of soldiers was disregarded overnight, and their comrades-in-arms fell silent. From the pen of a former gendarmerie officer, the first part of The First Door: The Gendarmerie series: The military gendarmerie.
Neither the government nor the opposition has made any solution-oriented statement in the face of the influx of Afghan asylum seekers. The author argues that the unmanaged crisis is leaving the street to cheap nationalism.
Politics has become a field in which ethical values are exhausted and everything is seen as legitimate on the road to power. The author reflects on the past and present of political engineering in Turkey.
In his videos Sedat Peker likened Süleyman Soylu to Joseph Fouché, the scheming police minister of the French Revolution. The author explains the historical background and meaning of this allusion.
From Plato's world of Forms to Don Quixote's windmills: The author uses philosophical references to interpret the profile of a politician who wages war according to the ideal world in his own mind.
The largest fuel pipeline in the US was shut down by a cyberattack and petrol stations ran dry. Through the Colonial Pipeline crisis, the author reflects on the fragility of critical infrastructure.
As the Compass Security Research Community (PUGAT) begins publishing: a concept of security that extends from the individual to society, and from the state to the world.
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