Arriving Diyarbakır a day before Nevruz (Newroz in Kurdish) has been bliss; away from the dark Western side of Turkey.
Sometimes, history seems as if it is all just a constant repetition of mistakes, based on human weaknesses.
In the last three weeks, I spent some time in Baghdad and then in Sulaimaniyah and as a result, I ended up feeling very sad although also a little hopeful
Postmodern theories suggest that there are no facts, but only “competing narratives.”
The early 1990s supposedly marked the end of many things: the end of communism, nation-states, ideology and even the end of history and politics.
The life and times of the so-called 'new Turkey' under the AKP rule has been so short that all those analyses based on the 'democratic potential' of a rising moderate Islamic political power proved to be a disastrous delusion
At all times of distress, conspiracy theories are there to provide some comfort to confused minds.
Under different circumstances, it would be a sign of great hope to witness an alliance between the AKP and the Kurdish political movement
We should not dismiss the reality behind the recent crises in Turkey as a simple matter of corruption, or a big fight hidden (that could not be hidden anymore) behind it.
