Mar 27
Note: This essay, written by Şöhret Baltaş, was published in Jiyan.org in Turkish on March 18th, 2014 with the title “Bir kız çocuğu… Şu dakika ölebilir.” As part of our efforts to inform the English speaking audience about male violence in Turkey, we attempted a free translation of this literary text. Location: Bingöl, Turkey. Year: …
Jan 08
Possibilities for the Turkish Society While the Ruling Class Coalition Falls Apart In the last weeks, Turkey has witnessed a rising trend of political strife that started with the arrest of dozens of people by the prosecutors due to allegations of corruption and bribery. The interrogation revealed an illicit chain of bribery and close …
Nov 28
Let me check my emails, let me see what’s new in Twitter, did I get new likes on Facebook, I wonder are there any new photos on Instagram, I’d like to buy this online, let me spread the word for this action on Facebook… Thanks to the Internet, we do all these things in an …
Nov 03
The METU Forest The Middle East Technical University (METU) was founded in 1956 in an area of 4500 hectares. This huge region was said to consist of swamps and have a soil like white powder. The forestations were launched on 1961, when students, academics, Ankara citizens as well as some politicians participated in the festivals. …
Sep 12
Riot control methods: What’s in your riot’s menu? How to deal with them? – Çağrı Mert Bakırcı part 4. The Turkish original of this article, “İsyan Kontrolünde Kullanılan Yöntemler ve Biyolojik Etkileri”, signed Çağrı Mert Bakırcı, was published on June 16th, 2013 in Evrim Ağacı.org. The content of the article is as follows: Introduction, The …
Sep 09
Riot control methods: What’s in your riot’s menu? How to deal with them? – Çağrı Mert Bakırcı part 3. The Turkish original of this article, “İsyan Kontrolünde Kullanılan Yöntemler ve Biyolojik Etkileri”, signed Çağrı Mert Bakırcı, was published on June 16th, 2013 in Evrim Ağacı.org. The content of the article is as follows: Introduction, The …
Sep 03
Riot control methods: What’s in your riot’s menu? How to deal with them? – Çağrı Mert Bakırcı part 2. The Turkish original of this article, “İsyan Kontrolünde Kullanılan Yöntemler ve Biyolojik Etkileri”, signed Çağrı Mert Bakırcı, was published on June 16th, 2013 in Evrim Ağacı.org. The content of the article is as follows: Introduction, The …
Aug 28
Riot control methods: What’s in your riot’s menu? How to deal with them? – Çağrı Mert Bakırcı part 1. The Turkish original of this article, “İsyan Kontrolünde Kullanılan Yöntemler ve Biyolojik Etkileri”, signed Çağrı Mert Bakırcı, was published on June 16th, 2013 in Evrim Ağacı.org. The content of the article is as follows: Introduction, The …
Aug 26
I’m not saying “Don’t unionize.” Do it, but do it in your spare time. The Turkish original of this article, “Sendikalı olma demiyorum hobi olarak yine ol!”, signed F.Serkan Öngel, was published on August 4th, 2013 in Birgün newspaper. For our English-speaking audience, we prepared a shortened translation of the article. Permission to Collective Agreement …
Aug 09
Gezi Parkı direnişiyle başlayıp tüm Türkiye çapında bir ayaklanmaya dönüşen eylemlerle ilgili Out for Beyond‘da yayınladığımız makaleleri toplu halde aşağıda bulabilirsiniz. This is a compilation of all the articles we published on the protests that were initiated by the Gezi Park resistance and then spread to a countrywide uprising. Halkından taraf olmayanı halk bertaraf edecek. – …