
A Letter to my Friends The Trees
I talk to you, I listen to you, but writing to you is a new experience for me....
Turkey: Land Without Free Speech or Basic Human Rights
I read this statement of the president far away from his country, in Wales where I’ve been living since 2013...
Think of a Country Ruled by Death, Fear and Lies
Think of a country where the citizens have become the three monkeys that see no evil, hear no evil...
Fear of Women Without Guilt
We are in the midst of a transition. The old patriarchal world, which I call analog, is a world in which...
No Rush in Ethiopia to Pry Misery from the Mirage of Capitalism
I visited Ethiopia for only three days, but that was enough for the cruelty of the system to burn my eyes...
From Analog to Digital: The Revolution Against the Patriarchal World Order
In the analog era, our perception was shaped by certain images and...
Empowering Words: From Raped and Abused to ‘Without My Consent’
Have you ever wondered about the act of speaking, about the words we say...
Information Free Flow to Wash Away Obsolete Ideologies
Since the 1990’s there has been a transition from the old analog world order to the new digital world order...
I Implore the Wind: Where Do I Belong?
Between hundreds of years-old trees
I’m searching for my past
at top of the mountains...
Women’s Rights: When Honor Terrorizes, Burns and Kill
My family and I used to live close to the world in an area called Kotli in Kashmir, in our poor village...
Human Rights of Children in Turkey: The Thin Line Between Sin and Crime
Rather than blindly go along with the commonly held concepts of crime...
Human Rights in Turkey: Society’s Moral Obligation to Girls and Boys
The concept of “children at risk” should not only describe those who live...
Rampant Violence Against Women in Turkey
Sorrow grows daily ever heavier as the culture of fear expands...
Violence, Fear, Censorship: Tools of Oppression in Male-Dominated Cultures
When we examine the system of government we have...
Defying Male Oppression With Women’s Laughter
In Turkey, women are truly worried about the future...
Child Marriage and Teen Pregnancy: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Child brides are a big issue for eastern countries, as are young mums or teenage mothers for western...
Turkey is a country of blood-sucking spirits
The piece of land surrounded by water on three sides is turning into a country..
Aren’t women’s voices equivalent to muteness in Turkey?
“Oh, but of course,
you women have the right to speak!
Spin and Self Delusion: Ignorance Is Bliss
I discovered a television show called Catfish while I was lying down...
The difference between Wales and Turkey
When drawings being scribbled,
colours dripping red...
Turkey: Losing the freedom to mourn
On the 13th of May the Soma mining disaster caused by carbon monoxide poisoning left over 230 dead.
Creating life with the tools of death
Three days ago a picture appeared on my Twitter timeline...
"What had happened to turn all this into a war zone?"
Together with Memet Ali Alabora the director of my play Mi Minor, Pinar Ogun the lead...
I’M GUILTY, I CONFESS…
I confess; two and a half years ago, as an outcome of my intellect and my imagination...
Corruption and suppression: Adaptation based on a true story
Imagine you wake up one day, start your day as usual; you go on the tube with the Metro...
Witch!
Over the last few weeks, I have been thinking about a sentence that is said to be mentioned in Turkish primary...
Unchangeable faith of womanhood.
My name is Yangli. Once upon a time I was born in a small village called Liuyi in China...
I WANT TO DENY...
When woman opened her eyes she hated everything. She hated the misty air that darkened her room...
On Censorship, Art and Wikileaks
There are many examples of censorship imposed on artworks of all kinds including books...
INCEST: ABUSE AND NEGLECT OF CHILDREN
I set my novel ‘Stop Hurting My Flesh’ in Turkey. In the novel, I wrote about a number...
Türkçe Makaleler
Linç
Bir yazar olduğunuzu düşünün; bir oyun yazıyorsunuz, oyununuz sahneye konuluyor sonra aradan aylar geçiyor...
Çıplaklaştıkça
Çıplaklığın her zaman şeffaflık olduğuna inanan biri olarak, kendimizi anlamanın yolununda, hep çıplaklıktan geçtiğine...
Namus
Namus kelimesi Antik Yunan’daki Namos kelimesinden türetilmiştir. Namos kelimesinin kökünde yer alan...
Erkek Egemenliğe Başkaldırı
Analog dünyada algımız, okuduğumuz kitaplar, izlediğimiz filmler, dinlediğimiz müzikler ve medyanın bize...
Yürümeyi Öğrenmek: Galler
Dağın tepesine tırmandığımda gerçekten artık bir adım daha atacak halim kalmamıştı. Bir yandan nefes...
Şiddetin Gizliliği
Henüz “Mi Minör” adlı oyunumun yazılmadığı, Galler’e gelmeye mecbur kalmadığımız, yeni Türkiye’nin...
Sansür
Sansür, şiddet ve korkunun ete kemiğe bürünmüş sopasıdır. Erkek egemen kültürün öğretileri ile kendi...
Demokrasi Büyük Bir Yalan
Kişiler kendilerinden ve yaşamın gerçeklerinden ölesiye nefret etmeyi öğrendikleri için var olmaktan...
Sahte Hayatlar Kumpanyası
Hayat öylece akıp giderken bizlerde oradan oraya sürükleniyoruz mu acaba?..