A high-voltage transmission line snapped and fell on a first lieutenant walking on a street in 2002 in Istanbul’s Sarıgazi neighborhood. Shopkeepers responded and moved the wire away from him with a piece of wood; as such, the lieutenant survived.
Is a photograph that reveals bare violence a news story or is it violence porn? This is an endless debate.
Be it a terror attack, a mine disaster or a traffic accident, whenever there is a fatal incident, we always focus on the dead. We count how many people have died; we assume the injured have been “saved.”
My heart sank when I saw the photograph of the yellow “dolmuş” burnt to ashes after the explosions in Istanbul’s Beşiktaş district near the Vodafone Arena Stadium because I live in Beşiktaş and I regularly take these “chartered yellow cabs” that shuttle between Beşiktaş and Taksim.
“For those men I meet while I’m looking for a job, I am only a woman in need; for them, poverty brings deprivation. But I want to work and earn. I am not offering my body; I am offering my labor. And I want bread for my children in return, because if I am to live like a human being, I have no other choice.”
In Turkey, one in three children suffers from extreme poverty
The proposal that featured certain pardons for abusers who married underage girls has been withdrawn back to the commission.
There are children in this country who, because their abusers are in jail, are victims. Is that so? Let me tell you about the true victims…
Each one of us is eating an average of 20 kilograms of fish annually
