New Future

The alarm on my phone is set for 3: 50 AM and I attempt to wake up with light taps on it.

A Bilge Aksu column, dedicated to the Kurdish artist Nûdem Durak, imprisoned since 2015, about the ongoing cultural censorship in Turkey.

The deepest darkness of night took shelter in the morning’s chest. In the stable, Dappir and Derman’s eyes broke through the darkness.

The Austrian Theodor Kramer Prize, rewarding writers in resistance or in exile, was awarded to the Kurdish author Meral Şimşek.

I wish to share with public opinion and the Ministry of Justice, my demands and proposals concerning conditions in prison which I observed.

Facing up to other people’s suffering is a virtue. The systems that feed off fear and individualism and their masters detest these virtues.

Derman, thirteen years old, with a golden tan like that of wheat, she had long braids of black hair reaching down to her waist. ..

May 4th 2022, in the city of Berlin, a march to make known the indignation provoked by the recent verdict in the so-called "Gezi Trial".

"Undress yourself! ". I said "I certainly will not. I was taken here precisely because I don’t accept strip searches! "

Turkey: Aggravated perpetuity for Osman Kavala and 18 years for seven other people accused in the Gezi trial.

Her hands are Dappir’s concern. She’s going on her ninety years, but suffering in those hands are heavier than the weight of years.