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Utku Perktaş
19 October 2024, Saturday / Published in Life, Politics

A Narrowing Corridor of Türkiye: The end of Açık Radyo

Açık Radyo has held an important place in Türkiye’s intellectual and cultural life for 30 years. For the past three years, I have been part of this big family through my program, “Anthropocene Conversations.” Being one of over 1300 broadcasters and preparing one of the approximately 1200 archived programs was a great honor for me.
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Nermin Pınar Erdoğan
09 September 2024, Monday / Published in Life, Politics

343 too many: Narin’s death exposes Türkiye’s child safety crisis

Türkiye mourns 8-year-old Narin Güran, whose lifeless body was found in the southeastern city of Diyarbakır 19 days after her disappearance, a case that has gripped the country and reignited debates about child safety. Narin’s case is not an isolated incident. In the just first half of 2024, 343 children died due to preventable causes
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Füsun Sarp Nebil
11 August 2024, Sunday / Published in Economy, Life, Politics

Why Instagram was blocked and unblocked in Türkiye?

On the morning of August 2, millions of Turkish users found that Instagram had been blocked. By 9:30 PM on August 10, access to the platform was restored. However, the reasons for the block, and the circumstances leading to its lifting, remain shrouded in mystery. One popular theory suggests that the ban was triggered by
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YetkinReport
18 July 2024, Thursday / Published in Life, Politics

Intense debate over stray animal bill in Turkish Parliament

The Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) commission commenced discussions over a controversial bill aiming to amend the Animal Protection Law in a marathon session filled with heated debates, protests, and high tension. The bill, known for its potential to introduce “euthanasia” for stray animals, sparked strong reactions from various political factions and civil society groups.
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Nermin Pınar Erdoğan
15 July 2024, Monday / Published in Life

From 1910 to 2024: Is Türkiye on the brink of another dog masacre?

Have you seen the 2010 short animation of Serge Avedikian called “Chienne d’histoire”? It tells the story of 80,000 stray dogs, forcibly rounded up and exiled to a remote island in Istanbul in 1910. The dogs died in a cruel manner with their cries echoing through Istanbul for days. The event known as “Hayırsızada Dog
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YetkinReport
21 June 2024, Friday / Published in Life

Wildfire devastates rural areas in Türkiye: 11 dead

A severe wildfire has erupted in the rural area between Diyarbakır’s Çınar district and Mardin’s Mazıdağı district, in Türkiye, claiming 11 lives and left many injured. The fire, which started as a stubble burning incident, rapidly grew due to strong winds, engulfing surrounding villages and causing significant casualties and damage, officials announced on June 21.
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Mehmet Öğütçü
05 June 2024, Wednesday / Published in Life, Politics

Türkiye’s new education model: Will religious education surpass science?

Will the sciene education surpass scientific education? The title actually reflects a misleading proposition. Both are needed; one is not an alternative to the other. The real question should be about the appropriate dosage within the education curriculum: how much mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and economics, which form the foundation of science and technology, should
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Mehmet Öğütçü
21 May 2024, Tuesday / Published in Life

New “Game-Changing” technologies: what will they trigger in our lives?

In our heated debates, when asked, “What is the most important game-changing development in the world today?” some highlight climate change, the sustainability of our planet, and the green transformation in energy. Others point to geopolitical conflicts or the new values of Generation Z. However, there is little objection when we say that “new technologies”
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Utku Perktaş
23 February 2024, Friday / Published in Life, Politics

The silent battle of Darwin’s evolution theory in Türkiye

There is a noteworthy yet seldom-discussed issue in Türkiye these days. Turkish Ministry of National Education had the removed Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution from the national education curriculum some years ago. Now, they announced the inclusion of the so-called “theory of creationism” into the new term’s schedule. For approximately seven years, the theory of
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Utku Perktaş
24 December 2023, Sunday / Published in Life, Politics

Turkish academy in crisis: Erosion in the higher education

There used to be universities in Türkiye. I say ‘used to’ because universities in Türkiye have now become institutions that have lost their value and deviated from their purpose. In my recent interview on my radio program Antroposen Sohbetler (Anthropocene Conversations) on Açık Radio, I hosted journalist journalist Tuğba Tekerek. Our focus in the interview
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  • The PKK’s decision to dissolve and questions to the Turkish government13 May 2025
  • Turkish public awareness of the disbanding of the PKK is low: survey13 May 2025
  • Türkiye is at the threshold for a solution to its chronic Kurdish problem9 May 2025
  • Security is the new dynamic in EU-Turkish relations9 May 2025
  • Kirkuk–Baniyas: the oil pipeline project that could sideline Türkiye30 April 2025
  • PKK tells Ankara no disarmament congress unless led by Öcalan28 April 2025
  • I will not beg Erdoğan for İmamoğlu’s freedom: opposition leader Özel27 April 2025
  • İmamoğlu effect: Turkish Central Bank raised policy rate to 46 pct17 April 2025
  • Erdoğan’s ally Bahçeli wants İmamoğlu case to end urgently15 April 2025
  • The Turkish position as Israel wants the US to dismantle Iran, too13 April 2025
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