MELİS ALPHAN

Cheapest electricity is the saved one MELİS ALPHAN

Cheapest electricity is the saved one

The same reply comes whenever we ask why we need so many coal mines, so many hydroelectric power plants (HES) and so many thermic power plants: “We need a lot of energy.”

October 31 2014
How to save nature and humanity MELİS ALPHAN

How to save nature and humanity?

It would be a very long list if the past year’s mass tree cuttings were all counted. Even the list of what happened in the past two weeks makes one’s heart ache

October 26 2014
Censorship leaves us no other option but paper marbling MELİS ALPHAN

Censorship leaves us no other option but paper marbling

I have selected art censorship cases from the past three years for you. I selected them because if I had tried to list them all, the whole page of this newspaper would not be adequate.

October 17 2014
No peace will come before we make peace MELİS ALPHAN

No peace will come before we make peace

Come; let us leave aside the words and views of politicians, the steering of opinion leaders. Let us turn to ourselves for once, and let us see what we have.

October 10 2014
Gentlemen, stop pondering women’s clothing choices MELİS ALPHAN

Gentlemen, stop pondering women’s clothing choices

It was 1750 B.C. when the function of the dress code in Babylon was to expose prostitutes.

October 03 2014
There is absolutely no basis for the headscarf for children MELİS ALPHAN

There is absolutely no basis for the headscarf for children

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights document that has been accepted by the most number of countries throughout history

September 26 2014
Raising awareness on the unpleasant practices of the fashion industry MELİS ALPHAN

Raising awareness on the unpleasant practices of the fashion industry

I was going to write today on the wild natural life of Africa, but I was made aware of a debate on a fashion brand’s commercial that erupted while I was away. So I postponed my Africa piece to a later date…

September 19 2014
Environment Ministry, hear us MELİS ALPHAN

Environment Ministry, hear us!

Today’s environmental scandal is from İzmir, Menemen. Villakent was built here in 1994, with 1,000 estates. Then, a water treatment plant was built in Free Industrial Zone.

September 12 2014
Ignorant and at the same time selfish MELİS ALPHAN

Ignorant and at the same time selfish

Whenever I raise my head and take a look at the television, I always see a story of another murdered woman in İzmir, Bursa, Istanbul, Gaziantep, Batman, Giresun, Uşak, Antalya, Ağrı or Kayseri…

September 05 2014