On Sept. 13, 16-year-old Syrian refugee Eymen Hammami who was working in a bakery in the northern province of Samsun was stabbed to death in an apparently racially motivated attack. “We are brothers, don’t do this,” the boy’s brother Ibrahim told the assailants, to no avail. Ibrahim told daily Evrensel that they had been standing […]
For a while now I have no desire to write. Whenever I sit at my computer, I come to notice a distinct non-enthusiasm for writing. With every passing day, the feeling that I am writing on the sand takes me over further. I spent last week watching over and over the news and videos of […]
Dear Mr Spano, Your visit to Turkey last week deeply disappointed those fighting for human rights, democracy, equality, and the rule of law. Your visit to my country, where the rule of law has been disregarded and hundreds of thousands of people are unlawfully in prison, could have been quite different. With your visit, you […]
An attack on Kurdish seasonal workers in the northwestern Sakarya province has occupied Turkey’s agenda this weekend. The incident arrives as the latest in a string of racist attacks targeting the country’s largest ethnic minority in the Black Sea province in recent years. On Friday, pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency reported, with video footage, an attack on 16 […]
Last week, a Turkish history professor casually commented that Turkey could “stroll into Greece, like Hitler entered Poland with ease.” Dr Ebubekir Sofuoğlu, a regular guest of debate programmes where he often speaks against the Westernisation of Turkey, was commenting on Turkey’s ongoing dispute with Greece and Cyprus over rights to natural resources in the Mediterranean. These […]
I am back home again, after a long time apart. My hometown is scorching hot and trying to ward off this virus. Every person I talk to knows one relative or at least a neighbour who has tested positive for COVID-19. Some of my own relatives are also battling the coronavirus. Hospitals in Diyarbakır, Turkey’s […]