Category: In Writing

https://www.calameo.com/read/003045515936123e5f041

“Beraat ettiğim gün beni kaç kişi aradı dersiniz? Ya da beyin kanaması geçirdiğimde kaç kişi ziyarete geldi? Hiç söylemeyeyim! İstemeden ve sanırım hak etmeden bir simgeye dönüşmüşüm, benim de bir insan olduğum unutulmuş, bana biçilen rol sırtımda taşıdığım ağır bir çarmıhmış!”

https://t24.com.tr/yazarlar/candan-yildiz/asli-erdogan-siddetin-bekasi-ugruna-harcanan-hayatlar-bizim-kaderimiz-uzatmalari-oynuyorum,41274

When the Turkish Republic was founded 100 years ago, it wanted to become a radically modern state: adopting European legal systems, the European calendar, Latin script, free elections, gender equality, separation of powers – a program more modern and secular than almost anywhere else in the world World. The bridge to Europe has been built. Today Turkey is an autocratic state, the opposition has been cornered and no one is immune from arrest. After the election in May this year, the country is more torn than ever before. 

In the movie Guardians of TruthCan Dündar and Aslı Erdoğan, both in exile in Berlin for years, reflect on the human rights crisis in their Turkish homeland: Parliamentary democracy has been all but abolished, as has freedom of expression and freedom of the press; many critics of President Erdogan are in prison. But the dream of a democratic republic of Turkey is not over – thanks to the many democrats who do not want to give up in their fight.

In his new book The Cracked Bridge over the Bosphorus. A century of the Turkish Republic and the West, Can Dündar tells the story of the Turkish Republic’s hundred-year struggle for a free society with a precise look at the last decades. And he gives an outlook on what could happen next for the country.

https://www.gorki.de/de/quo-vadis-tuerkei

Guardians of Truth: Can Dündar meets Aslı Erdoğan and the Voices of Free Turkey
Film by Can Dündar Germany, 2023, 52 min

The cracked bridge over the Bosphorus. A Century of Turkish Republic and the West
Book by Can Dündar

10/15, 4:00 PM

Admission free!

Film + Talk

In English