Cry for my beloved Antakya On the 35th day since the earthquake struck, I enter Antakya[1]. I am rendered speechless by the horror of the scene before me. Everywhere I turn, everything is destroyed. I search for a building that may have withstood the force of the tremors but find none. The city lies in […]
It must have been more than 20 years ago. I was in Istanbul for a meeting. Afterwards, I needed to take a taxi to my destination. Since I didn’t know much about Istanbul, I asked Osman Kavala which side of the road I should take the taxi. “Don’t take a taxi, there is a metro, […]
Deniz Poyraz, an employee with the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) İzmir headquarters was killed in an armed attack on the party’s head office in the western province on June 17. We understand from photos shared on social media that 27-year-old assailant Onur Gencer had in the past went to fight in Syria. We do […]
A Kurdish family was attacked in Turkey’s southern Mersin province in May. The Kurdish family, who came to Mersin as tourists from Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), sustained injuries of a racist attack by a group of people with stones and batons. The Governor’s Office of Mersin has denied the […]
“After all these years, I do not have a proper answer for such a question of what justice is. Because everything is so volatile and hopeless. Wherever a person hurts, that’s where the life is. Justice; is not being judged for long, justice; is that the law applies to all, justice; is not to be […]
I was talking to a friend from Brussels, where we have vacationed together for many years. She told me that the COVID-19 pandemic measures were easing and she was planning a vacation for this summer, before asking me about the situation in Turkey. “This place is amazing, but for you, the tourists,’’ I told her. […]