General
Quarantine Diary II: How I lost my job and seven kilos
A lot of journalists and other liberal professionals were made redundant during the pandemic. I was one – and discovered that it was a mixed blessing.
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Quarantine Diary I: How Downton Abbey may save your marriage
Worried that the four-day bayram-in-lockdown may deliver the final blow to your marriage already strained by Covid-19 curfews? Here are my tips!
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Turkish Dilemma: Should I stay or should I go?
Caught between fear and authoritarianism, many Turks wonder whether it is time to leave Turkey.
Life & Politics
Syrians in Turkey: Candid Shots vs Myths
“When you enter a refugee family’s home, you immediately understand what their future plans are,” said Sinan Kılıç, a photographer who has been working on documentaries of refugees and migrants for the last five years
Literature & Art
A tune of her own
I want a softer and democratic leadership in politics and business, and, by contrast, I want rowdy, uproarious, colorful, irreverent individualism/opposition/anger in arts.
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One-woman play on Marat’s death captures zeitgeist
The interpretation by Ant Aksan focuses on the futility of the revolution and the continuity of repression: The actress, Ayşegül Sünetçioğlu – mad, outraged, dangerous –knows that torture has not been abolished and that the same enemies of 1793--war profiteers, religious bigots, and capitalist overlords--also prosper in 1808. The audience is reminded that much holds true over time.
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When once-angry young women opt for losers
For the sake of my youthful love of the writer Pınar Kür, I will forget that her last book “Sadık Bey” – written after a silence of ten years – exists. If anybody asks, I have never read it and I still think of Kür as the brilliant creator of/writer for angry young women, not impotent old men.
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