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16 articles · Writing for PUGAT 2021–2022 · 5 series
Sixty-two years have passed since 27 May 1960, yet neither the “coup or revolution” debate nor Turkey’s democratic deficit has changed. The author argues that every form of authoritarianism, military or civilian, is equally destructive.
The history of war is as old as the history of humanity, and war takes on a more hybrid character every day. The article compares the Russia–Ukraine war with past cases and assesses possible scenarios.
Europe faces its largest conventional war since the Second World War. The article discusses whether UN and NATO intervention against Russia is legally and militarily possible.
Squid Game reached more than 111 million people in its first month. The author adapts the series’ dystopian world to our own social reality through “the managers and game masters”.
Love of the homeland is more than attending martyrs' funerals or competing over crowd size at rallies. The fourth part of the Collective Consciousness series looks at how values are wrongly coded into minds.
Like the lymph nodes in our immune system, society has defence mechanisms that stop problems before they spread. The third part of the Collective Consciousness series describes this “bulletproof armour”.
The mentality of “long live the snake that doesn't bite me” prepares the ground for the erosion of values such as democracy and justice. The second part of the Collective Consciousness series deals with moral values.
A single soldier's isolated action cannot form a line of defence; societies, too, can only stand firm by uniting around a collective consciousness. The first part of the Collective Consciousness series.
The remedy against disinformation and deliberate ignorance is quality education and quality reading. The final part of the Intellectual Capacity series makes the diagnosis and gathers the proposed solutions.
Incompetent rulers find no place for themselves in questioning societies. The second part of the Intellectual Capacity series looks at the questioning society and the government's report card.
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