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...
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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...
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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...
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Empowering Words: From Raped and Abused to ‘Without My Consent’
Have you ever wondered about the act of speaking, about the words we say...
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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...
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From Analog to Digital: The Revolution Against the Patriarchal World Order
In the analog era, our perception was shaped by certain images and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Rampant Violence Against Women in Turkey
Sorrow grows daily ever heavier as the culture of fear expands...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Violence, Fear, Censorship: Tools of Oppression in Male-Dominated Cultures
When we examine the system of government we have...
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Defying Male Oppression With Women’s Laughter
In Turkey, women are truly worried about the future...
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Spin and Self Delusion: Ignorance Is Bliss
I discovered a television show called Catfish while I was lying down...
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Turkey is a country of blood-sucking spirits
The piece of land surrounded by water on three sides is turning into a country..
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Aren’t women’s voices equivalent to muteness in Turkey?
Creating life with the tools of death
Three days ago a picture appeared on my Twitter timeline...
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The difference between Wales and Turkey
When drawings being scribbled,
colours dripping red...
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Turkey: Losing the freedom to mourn
On the 13th of May the Soma mining disaster caused by carbon monoxide poisoning left over 230 dead.
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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...
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"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...
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I’M GUILTY, I CONFESS…
I confess; two and a half years ago, as an outcome of my intellect and my imagination...
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Confronting THE BIG LIE
Reality and pain are inevitably nested within each other...
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Witch!
Over the last few weeks, I have been thinking about a sentence that is said to be mentioned in Turkish primary...
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Unchangeable faith of womanhood.
My name is Yangli. Once upon a time I was born in a small village called Liuyi in China...
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I WANT TO DENY...
When woman opened her eyes she hated everything. She hated the misty air that darkened her room...
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Inwardly
Believe
On Censorship, Art and Wikileaks
There are many examples of censorship imposed on artworks of all kinds including books...
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INCEST: ABUSE AND NEGLECT OF CHILDREN
I set my novel ‘Stop Hurting My Flesh’ in Turkey. In the novel, I wrote about a number...
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Linç
Bir yazar olduğunuzu düşünün; bir oyun yazıyorsunuz, oyununuz sahneye konuluyor sonra aradan aylar geçiyor...
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Linç
Çıplaklaştıkça
Çıplaklığın her zaman şeffaflık olduğuna inanan biri olarak, kendimizi anlamanın yolununda, hep çıplaklıktan geçtiğine...
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Namus
Namus kelimesi Antik Yunan’daki Namos kelimesinden türetilmiştir. Namos kelimesinin kökünde yer alan...
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Erkek Egemenliğe Başkaldırı
Analog dünyada algımız, okuduğumuz kitaplar, izlediğimiz filmler, dinlediğimiz müzikler ve medyanın bize...
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Yürümeyi Öğrenmek: Galler
Dağın tepesine tırmandığımda gerçekten artık bir adım daha atacak halim kalmamıştı. Bir yandan nefes...
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Şiddetin Gizliliği
Henüz “Mi Minör” adlı oyunumun yazılmadığı, Galler’e gelmeye mecbur kalmadığımız, yeni Türkiye’nin...
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Sansür
Sansür, şiddet ve korkunun ete kemiğe bürünmüş sopasıdır. Erkek egemen kültürün öğretileri ile kendi...
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Demokrasi Büyük Bir Yalan
Kişiler kendilerinden ve yaşamın gerçeklerinden ölesiye nefret etmeyi öğrendikleri için var olmaktan...
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