Defying a ban against LGBTI+ events in Turkey’s capital Ankara, queer film fest KuirFest sets out on a tour to three Turkish cities.

Ankara’s mayor Melih Gökçek built five new city gates on different highways, boosting aesthetics of Seljuk and Ottoman architecture. A sign of megalomania?

The occupation began with a few dozen people protesting the demolition of trees in Gezi Park by a private company at 2 AM. That morning, the bulldozers came back and tried to continue demolishing the patch of land on the far edge of the park.

For eight days and nights, Mashallah News covered the uprising in Istanbul and other Turkish cities, highlighting the huge diversity of the Gezi movement.

Avareler is a street art collective based in Ankara. For the past few years they have been covering Ankara’s walls with pink, ironic artworks.

İki hafta önce bir “Avareler” adlı grubunun üyesi “Pembe serisi” adlı yeni resim sergisini facebook’ta paylaştı. Bir tanesi sosyal ağda hemen popüler olmuş.

Hayvanlar Alemi, known across Turkey for their psychedelic-experimental sound, talks about Lambada, the devil and why Ankara is so boring.

“I wanted to write songs. But I went to so many studios where they said: ‘What the fuck is that? We cannot make a song out of this, it’s bullshit. It’s about women, about lesbians.’”

On the screen: Act of Dishonour, dedicated to those Afghan women who are no longer among us. From Nelofer Pazira, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Dans cette deuxième partie d’interview, Clément Girardot aborde avec Emmanuel Szurek la question de l’impact de la réforme de la langue turque et les mesures concrètes mises en place pour implémenter celle-ci. Quelles sont les implications linguistiques de la latinisation ? Changer l’alphabet revient aussi à changer l’orthographe et à terme, le vocabulaire. C’est pour […]