Pınar Öğünç

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The bleak future of Turkey’s youth Here in Turkey, we ought to keep in mind that our youth has not seen anything else but destructive neoliberalism and an authoritarian regime that considers freedom of opinion and expression as direct threats. Schools are, at all times, like tiny pills implanted in students’ minds; but, all through those years with the AKP, the ruling Justice and Development Party, science and free thinking have been undermined.
Leaving your country to start a new life Ahmed Jundi is a poet who, one night, crossed the Aegean Sea with one of those boats, a Syrian citizen who has asked for asylum in the Netherlands but the process is now uncertain due to the pandemic. He is a father who is waiting for months to be united with his family who are still in İzmir. Why Kafka no longer captures the reality of Turkey’s judiciary Today, it is rather common to refer to Kafka’s “The Trial” whilst discussing Turkey’s judiciary system. Yet the book is longer adequate to describe our contemporary reality. Kafka’s works fail to capture today’s lawlessness and irrationality.
According to the statistics, you don’t exist The Turkish government has shown that it may have a mind-boggling distance from reality during the reporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Authoritarian regimes have a long history of interfering in official statistics. When data is made inaccessible or when data is not real, then a different type of politics begins.