Turkey’s Oldest Film Festival in a Censorship (and Existential) Crisis
Turkey’s oldest film festival, the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, has been thrown into turmoil after jury members resigned and...
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A Brand of Sugar Called the ‘New Ottoman’
“Kemalism could not change the path of the main stream. Now we’re back where we were, and Kemalism is no longer an alternative. Now...
Disney Should Not Have Cancelled its Atatürk Series
‘Mustafa Kemal’s meaning to the Turkish people and his impact on Turkey are undeniable. Canceling Atatürk won’t convince Turks...
Turkey’s Secularists May Never Come Back to Power
The secular segment of society has a historical responsibility at this moment. It must see that life has changed, that it may never be the...
Turkey’s Youth Anxious Over Islamization of Education System
‘A 2021 poll of Turkey’s youth showed that 62.5% would like to leave the country. Among the supporters of the ruling Justice and...
Why Journalists Don’t Feel Safe in Turkey
‘The report by the MLSA found that only 18, or 39.1 %, of journalists who stated they had been subjected to violence filed a complaint,...
Parents Encourage Children to Leave Turkey—For Good
‘Using official data from TurkStat, Turkey recap calculated nearly 500,000 Turkish citizens left the country between 2016 to 2020. About...
Osman Kavala’s ‘Character Assassination’ in ‘Metamorfoz’
Accessible free of charge on the public service’s new online platform, the series ostensibly recounts the adventures of a young...
Why Reuters Ended Up as the Latest Media Target by Erdoğan’s Gov’t
‘Given the present environment of censorship and the ongoing attempts to silence remaining independent media in Turkey, it was not all...
The Opposition’s Defeat Becomes Voters’ Despair
‘A mass “de-politicisation” among oppositional social groups is not a distant possibility. We are drifting towards a situation in...