Friday, October 30, 2026

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Life Stories

Essays, stories, portraits and testimonies: the human stories behind security and migration.

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Essay · Life Stories

Transformational Leadership and the Architects of Tomorrow

From Google to NVIDIA, today’s tech giants were not grown by capital alone; they were grown by leaders who instilled a dream in their employees. A look at Silicon Valley through the concept of transformational leadership.

Aydın Yavuz · 19 June 2026 · 7 min read

The Girl Who Kept the Milk Pure and Ethical Leadership

The story of the girl who would not water down the milk takes place in a single night but has been told for centuries. Remaining fair where no one is watching is still the most critical test of politics and government today.

Aydın Yavuz · 15 February 2026 · 8 min read

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.

Sezai Akyüz · 16 February 2025 · 4 min read

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.

Sezai Akyüz · 6 February 2024 · 5 min read

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.

H.Murat Kadir · 5 January 2024 · 7 min read

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.

Sezai Akyüz · 10 March 2023 · 6 min read

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.

Orhan Turan · 8 March 2023 · 6 min read

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.

H.Murat Kadir · 13 February 2023 · 5 min read