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Paradoxical Leadership and the Fine Ethics of Politics
A leader is expected to be strong and humble, decisive and attentive all at once. Paradoxical leadership is the art of balancing these contradictory expectations of politics.
From Bursa Girls’ High School to the Top of TU Berlin: Prof. Dr. Fatma Deniz
Fatma Deniz, who graduated top of her class from Bursa Girls’ High School, was elected president of TU Berlin after Caltech and Berkeley. The story of a scientist building a bridge between the brain and artificial intelligence.
Lemon Sellers and Cashiers
“If need be, I’ll sell lemons” has given way to “I’ll become a cashier”. On the debate over the lieutenants expelled from the Turkish army, from the pen of a writer who lost his job by emergency decree: the value of labour and the loss of merit.
We All Died, They Only Buried You
On the first anniversary of the earthquake, a letter written from a tent among the ruins to a family that was lost. A personal testimony of grief, neglect and loneliness.
A Letter to My Brother
A letter to a friend with whom the author took his oath at the Military Academy, who has spent years in prison because he was where he had been ordered to be on the night of 15 July.
I Was a Little Child
Children who froze to death under the rubble, who went out to buy bread and never came back, who could not get treatment because their father was in prison. A lament written in their voices.
Time of the Wolf and a New Social Contract
What happens if there is no state? Haneke’s film “Time of the Wolf” and the tent days after the 1999 earthquake point, after the 2023 earthquakes, to the need for a new social contract.
I Am Under the Rubble
“My name is Conscience. I am under the rubble in Turkey.” An essay that tells, in the voice of conscience, of the delayed aid, the soldiers who did not come and the rescue teams who arrived too late after the earthquake of 6 February.









