from an unlikely truce of the century past onwards

Most of you know the story where the British and the German troops stopped the war, the first of the Continue reading →

Are we that desperately lonely?

Below article, in Turkish, was written for a Turkish weekly news magazine back in the late 90’s. It is a Continue reading →

Book review: Standing Rock, by Bikem Ekberzade

Little bit of housekeeping 🙂 Came across this link just now, an indepth and sincere review of my book. For Continue reading →

“Imagining Justice through Oral History”

On June 12, 2019 I moderated a talk by anthropologist and oral historian Zoë West co-sponsored by Hrant Dink Foundation and Continue reading →

Standing Rock: Greed, Oil and Lakota’s Struggle for Justice

My last book, the main reason for my blog’s silence for the majority of the past two years, is finally Continue reading →

Aftermath of An Assasination

Following is the English translation of an article which I penned for the January 2017 issue of a monthly Turkish Continue reading →

Crossings – An Intervention

That is how starts the mammoth text which I wrote and then placed over a single photograph in Crossings, a cross-platform, Continue reading →

From Istanbul to Baghdad

Although an avid reader, I never before had heard of Arnon Grunberg. I like going to bookstores, and in fact Continue reading →