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journalist/ analyst. Talks and writes about politics. Mainly about Turkey
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Sentenced to Digital Death: Censorship, Paranoia, and the Shrinking Space for Truth in Turkey (opens the original)
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Now retired super model Aysun Kayacı left an indelible mark on a bygone era of Turkish television with a single sentence: “Are the vote of a shepherd in the mountains and my vote equal?”Back then, NTV—a prominent news channel of the time—broadcast a cultural discussion program featuring three women, one journalist-Çiğdem Anat, one actress-Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subsc
When Scams Meet Censorship: How Turkey’s Financial Illusion Collapsed (opens the original)
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Traditional trade wisdom says that a grifter and a greedy mark always find each other. In the wake of Turkey’s recent, devastating fund market collapse—where astronomical, unrealistic returns evaporated overnight, leaving everyday investors wiped out—we are once again trying to figure out who was merely greedy and who was outright fraudulent.When any financial system promises to multiply your money fivefold in no time, you do not need to be a scholar to know something is deeply wrong. Yet, a por
From Local Machine to Patronage State: How AK Party’s Rise and Transformation Mirror Turkey’s Political Evolution (opens the original)
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Why the Left Has It Harder: Reflections on Turkish Politics and the Opposition’s Dilemma (opens the original)
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In Turkey, the left’s job has always been harder than the right’s. On the right, a strong tradition of leadership makes life easier for leaders, provided they keep winning. When they make an unexpected move—such as Devlet Bahçeli’s radical stance on the framework law—their voters tend to shrug and follow, reasoning, “The leader must know something we don’t.”On the left, it doesn’t work that way. Left-wing voters are far more active. Almost everyone has an opinion, and voters are rigid and proact
THE DYING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN (opens the original)
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