Social fabric roundup: Rıza Kayaalp suspended for his anti-Armenian rant… Ahmet Ümit another target of anti-Gezi hysteria…

Turkey?s Gezi Park episode is far from over Paradoxically, Gezi Park presented Erdoğan with a golden opportunity, one that could also have helped Turkish democracy part company from the tendency of powerful political parties to drift into populism-fuelled authoritarianism. For the global media what happened in Gezi Park throughout June is now old news. Not … Read more

Elif’s roundup: Surrounded by Postmodern cultural launches!

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.

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