A Turkish book is being launched through Twitter!
We got used to the fact that the publicity is usually more important than the content of many pieces of the pop-culture industry; but this week, I saw some further example to this gap between the publicity of the piece and piece itself.
I have been late to publish it. My mistake. Elif is back with her second post. She is getting into it.
Did we experience or represent freedom on the Labor Day?
Last week, the world has celebrated the Labor Day. People danced, shouted and walked on the streets and especially in Turkey, everything seemed to be like in Rio Carnival with explicitly entertaining scenes in stark contrast to suffering Greece which witnessed a violent Labor Day.
Emine Erdoğan watched a concert performed by Turkish pop star Sertap Erener in Brussels on Friday. VIA
Currently, The Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?s wife Emine Erdoğan is addressing a speech in a conference called ?The role of Turkish Women in Turkey?s EU processes which she joined with a huge group of Turkish business women to represent Turkey.
But there is a question to be asked here. Is that really that helpful to be in such a populist manner to improve and speed up the process of Turkey?s EU process in these uncertain conditions?
According to me, the possibility of early voting stimulates the government to create a ?too interested in important subjects like women and EU? image to alter the perception in that way.
Despite the fact that ?women? and ?EU? issues are really important to bring together, first of all each of them should be solved particularly to make the collage of the two issues more meaningful.
Also another question mark is in sample. Are these 300 women most appropriate sample to represent Turkish women and are they heterogeneous enough?
Moreover, according Milliyet newspaper ?Erdoğan will explain Turkish woman?. What does that mean? Will she give success examples in business life of Turkey? Will she talk about the social status of women or will she talk about the the innovation needed in legislation about women?
Most of the important issues aren?t discussed, but they seem to be discussed?
I hope 300 people return to Turkey not with smiling celebrity pictures but with the permanent strategic innovation steps and different discourses.