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Siyasi partilerin 1 Mayıs afişleri, İstanbul (1997) 📸 Selim Keskin Political parties May Day posters, Istanbul (1997) #1Mayıs

Şimdi merak edip Sırrı Süreyya Önder’in 2018’de neden yine hapse atılmasına baktım ve öğrendim ki, cezayı veren mahkemenin başkanı, bugün Ekrem İmamoğlu’na ve İstanbul Belediyesi’ne kurulan kumpasın savcısı: Akın Gürlek.

The X account of Istanbul’s twice-elected mayor and opposition presidential candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu has been blocked in Turkey. After failing to silence him through imprisonment, Erdoğan’s government now resorts to digital censorship. A striking example of how Turkey’s

Photos I took in Kathmandu

The #PKK is expected to announce its decision to end its armed struggle against #Turkey very soon. In a statement it says: - 12th congress was held from May 5 to 7. - Öcalan participated by telephone. - Resolutions will be announced.

Just as Turkish President Erdogan's global standing is skyrocketing, his domestic standing is cratering

The History Of Jazz

Pikachu enters the CHP İzmir rally after being checked by police.

I asked Gpt is she is God

What happens when a movement born in resistance begins to mirror the logic of the regime it opposes? I wrote on recent moral compromises within Turkey’s Kurdish political movement—and why abandoning universal principles is a dangerous trap. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/tezcangumu…

A Beginner’s Guide to John Coltrane

A powerful and necessary reminder that suffering does not grant moral infallibility, a courageous critique by Tezcan Gümüş The Silence Within: The Collapse of Moral Imagination in Turkey’s Kurdish Movement open.substack.com/pub/tezcangumu…

Living Colour performing Cult of Personality on SNL in 1989.

What happens when the oppressed start to sound like their oppressors? My latest piece, looks at how Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks can explain Turkey’s Kurdish political crisis today, and what it reveals about freedom, masks, and the struggle within tezcangumus.substack.com/p/the-mask-wor…

After arresting presidential contender Imamoglu in March, Erdogan’s courts today arrest his lawyer too. He is charged with collecting information to build his client’s defense.

In a region in flux, one leader has managed to entrench his position even further. Here's my notebook for Engelsberg Ideas on the reasons for Erdogan's staying power engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the-s…

Quite terrifying and reminiscent of attacks on Charlie Hebdo. Crowds outside Leman cartoon magazine office in Istanbul’s Beyoglu chanting threats to protest its publishing of images of the Prophet Mohammed and Abraham even though the cartoon conveyed a peaceful message regarding

Temmuz 1993, Leman kapağı. #SivasKatliamınıUnutma #UnutMadımaklımda

On this day in 1989, Public Enemy released “Fight the Power” It was conceived at the request of film director Spike Lee, who sought a musical theme for his 1989 film Do the Right Thing. First issued on the film's 1989 soundtrack, a different version was featured on Public