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“To look at science through the prism of the artist, but also to look at art through the prism of life.”
- The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (F.W. Nietzsche)
Omnia dubitanta sunt - Everything is in doubt


Marvin Jones - Erdal Inonu
Turkey lost Erdal İnönü in the fall of 2007. Erdal İnönü had a quality that was far superior to his other qualities, such as being the...
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Threepenny Carrion Crows
The waves of dried mud have darkened her tiny hands. Her fingernails are full of dirt. They are pitch black. She is holding on to the...
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Lebanon Stories
According to studies by the World Bank, Lebanon's current economic crisis is one of three deep crises in world history in terms of its...
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What is the Republic Celebrating on its 100th Anniversary?
Although the official beginning of the Republic of Turkey is October 29, 1923, its ideological beginnings date back much further. The...
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Hello to Spring from the Aegean
The notes that Vivaldi uses to describe spring in The Four Seasons are amazing. Even if you listen to the music in the middle of winter,...
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Kabataş and Oktay Tuncer as a Concept
You can learn most of the subjects that are taught to you during your school years after school. You can find methods to improve yourself...
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Oktay Hoca
If I remember correctly, when I was in Kabataş 2nd Science B, one day, Professor Oktay asked how many people in the class had fountain...
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Istanbul
I hate it. It's hard to come to hate something, but I do. Yes, I hate you now. I could feel sorry for you when you were first raped. I...
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Changing World, Changing Lifestyles
Indices, foreign exchange, gold, stock market, etc. prices, charts in front of fancy screens. The world has changed, Türkiye has changed...
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The Name of the Winds of Change in the 1980s: Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev was an important name for those born in the late 1960s and early 1970s who were interested in economics and politics. As this...
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A Family Story: Grandfather
We all have deep stories in our lives and pasts. Some we live alone and tell around. Some are told from generation to generation within...
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Trapped in Ignorance
I read İlhan Selçuk's work called Captain Selahattin's Novel in my high school years. Captain Selahattin was an Ottoman officer. He...
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After a Century
We're on the phone. Her excitement makes her voice tremble. "How about we send the Medal of Independence and some photographs so they can...
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Morality Earthquake
This is not the first time Turkey has experienced an earthquake. It did not face earthquakes of the magnitude it experienced on February...
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A Street Piano in Halicarnassus
It is not easy to scribble something in the land where the Father of History, as Cicero called him, was born. We have the responsibility...
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Iron Heel
It was the summer of 1984 when I read Jack London's The Iron Heel. The subjects in the book had so intrigued me and had caused me to...
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Children of Winton
669 Jewish children were kidnapped from Czechoslovakia and for nearly half a century, no one knew about this story. Grete Gjelstrup finds...
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Germany
I went back to the years between 1977-79. Because the effects of these two years on me have been so deep that they still affect my life...
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Goodbye Assos
"Mom," I say, "we've come to our lands again." The island with the pointed peaks appeared again from miles away. My mother opens the...
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Conservative Country Losing Its Culture
It was the 1980s. It was the Özal government period. The country was in the gloomy atmosphere of the September 12 martial law days. On...
Arda Tunca
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