Category: DENEMELER / ESSAYS

  • 8 km olanı televizyonlarda gördüğümüz herkesin Boğaziçi Köprüsü’ne çıkıp köprüyü sallamak suretiyle sağlamlığını kontrol ettiği koşu. Bu, koşudan ziyade bir karnaval gibi. Mangalınızı, yumurtanızı, dolmanızı, tavlanızı getirip köprü üstünde piknik yapıyorsunuz. İlerki senelerde bu kısmın yasaklanacağını veya disipline olacağını tahmin ettiğimden bunları yapmak isteyen okurların gelecek senekine muhakkak katılmalarını öneririm.

  • The program’s format goes like this: first you play a song from say Iron Maiden, let’s suppose you play Hallowed Be Thy Name, a song about a man on his way to the gallows. To proceed to the next song, the DJ has to find a connection to another artist. Let’s also assume that you…

    Connecting Rebellion
  • In this case when I say Protest Music I mean something else. I’m adding some videos below which are all about the protests but would not be filed under this genre. Maybe it can be said that just like the people, music genres are also uniting to protest against the PM and his government during…

    Protest Music from Gezi Park
  • The Gezi Park was packed, and it looked like a carnival. There were street vendors selling all sorts of food, guitar players with cigarettes in their mouths with the ash almost falling onto their laps, people dancing the halay, voracious readers reading in dim light, a tattoo maker with a sign that said, “Ataturk’s signature…

    People’s Republic of Taksim
  • I can see a growing interest from the rest of the world regarding the anti government (i.e. anti Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan) demonstrations in Turkey. But the real perplexing thing for us Turks is that the demonstrations have mobilised a previously numb and apolitical fraction of the society.

    The Teargas Revolution