There is a basic controversy intrinsic in human core: he thrives to belong to a group; thrives to be 'one' but at the same time he wishes to be distinguished. Especially when a tragedy is in question. On one hand you cannot stand to stay a spectator, you need to be close by. At...
"This cannot go on" said a journalist friend, referring to the oppression of the media, of Kurdish politics, the silencing of society and rising authoritarianism in Turkey. In return I asked: "Do you mean 'It is impossible for it to go on like this' or 'I will not let it go on...
"So do you think Turkey is being Islamized?" Although my speech was more or less a detailed account of Turkey's domestic politics, I was expecting this classical and rather shallow question from the audience. Last week at the Bruno Kreisky Forum in Vienna, our topic of the day...
"You were the one who produced and distributed the bad milk, we heard. We decided to drop by and see who you are. Don't get us wrong, we don't think you are the only guilty party in this business. Those who fell for your moderate Islamic style mustache and the scent of the rose...
Ece Temelkuran I don’t usually write such stuff. These are private issues. But I guess this once they should be on the record. Why? I’ll explain. It was 8am I guess, maybe earlier. I’m sleeping. The phone starts to ring, a woman is crying her heart out on...
Από την Ετζέ Τεμέλκουραν O T. S. Elliot σίγουρα θα είχε αναθεωρήσει τον διάσημο στίχο του από την «Έρημη Χώρα» ότι «ο Μάρτιος είναι ο πιό πικρός...
Ece Temelkuran "Since you don’t wear a women's outfit you should not use women's shampoo! Now you have a 100 percent men's shampoo. If you are a man, you use Biomen!" says Hitler in a dubbed advertisement on Turkish TV channels. The shampoo ad explains a lot about the...
The original article "Ordinary Miracles" was published at Al Akhbar English on March 16, 2012. "An inadequate justice will not bring democracy to this country. Our release from prison does not mean much. The freedom of expression must not be on the agenda only when we...
This story that I am about to tell you does not have a happy ending. It all started two weeks ago. The news first appeared on the Dicle News Agency, an independent news website, based in Turkey, which mostly covers the Kurdish issue. The news itself was actually one year old....
This article was written by Ece Temelkuran as a prologue to her opus; "For The Record" in Turkish. She revisits Turkey's recent past and tells the tale of a peculiar social change from state oppression to outright fascism. "For the Record," because... The times we live in are...
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