My 95 year old German father-in-law Sigmund Held
Born in 1921 and still managing by himself... Experiencing major historical events and still remembering them... My German father-in-law, Sigmund Held, who will turn...
Germans to Erdoğan Turks living in Germany: Go back to Turkey!
63% of the Turkish citizens in Germany voted for a presidential regime at the referendum in April. That means the majority of Turkish people...
12 Turkish artists at Art New York Fair by Galeri Selvin
Galeri Selvin presents the works of 12 Turkish artists to the international art galleries, collectors and art enthusiasts at Art New York fair, where...
Taldans: Can a refrigerator dance?
A refrigerator, a toothpick, a tape roll, an apple or a water pipe... What do they have to do with dancing? For the Taldans performers,...
Atatürk: Through rational and irrational ways of thinking
Let us go back 80 years and write the Turkish history again… Imagine that the ones, who were taught to hate Atatürk, see him...
Interview with Turkish Artist Mehmet Güler
The art critic Dirk Schwarze has listed important artists from the entire World in his last book "The ABC of the post war modern...
When We Leave: Questioning the Patriarchal Family with Sibel Kekilli
Sibel Kekilli's first movie Head On (2004), directed by Fatih Akın, dealt with some patriarchal family matters. The Austrian director Feo Aladağ investigates the...
Interview: Niederkaufungen – Living in a commune
Consumer Society and capitalism went without limits and already caused some people to change their lifestyle as a reaction. Groups of people over the...
Interview with Imam Daayiee Abdullah on Homosexuality in Islam
On Sunday July 19th, I met with Daayiee Abdullah on Skype for an interview. He had already told about his views about homosexuality and...
Gay Imam Daayiee Abdullah
The American homosexual imam Daayiee Abdullah recently appeared in Turkish media. Nefise Özkal Lorentzen had already introduced him and other Muslim gays in her...
Has the Train of Democracy Already Arrived?
"Democracy is like a train", Turkey's current President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said early on in his political career. "We shall get out when we...
Do Only Women Suffer in Islam?
In secularist countries, where there is no organic tie between religion and the government, the gender emancipation is already taken for granted. However in...
Marmaris International Short Film Festival
Marmaris, a coastal Mediterranean city in Turkey, is counting down for its 1st International Film Festival.
All Times Best 35 Albums: YouTube Standout Tracks
With the intriguing rise in vinyl sales, and YouTube's standout tracks campaign, it seems time for a best ever list.
I consider the album, an hour...
The Once and Future Music Industry
They were panicking and moaning about the disappearance of an industry that had been ripping off music lovers for far too long, culminating in the daylight robbery and bare-faced greed of the CD age, missing an industry that was only borne by chance in the first place...
SOAKED Interview with the Storytellers of Downright Soaked Truth
What kind of music? Soaked. Main character, as putting what comes out him into words, he put into colors and shapes, roles and revives...
Interview with James Gillies – CERN Spokesman
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is carrying out one of the greatest experiments of the history. There are numerous unanswered questions about the research, including 'the God particle' discovery and anti-matter. We reached Mr. James Gillies, the Head of Communication Spokesman at CERN, and derived our questions from our readers' curiosity to cover the overall process about this great experiment.