Turkey Has A Very Young, Dynamic, Curious

The Child Had Indeed Shut Up But All The Questions That Had Accumulated On His Tongue Circulated In His Mouth, Moved Through The Passages Of His Nose And Climbed Up From There To Tickle Into His Teardrop Ducts, So In His Moss Green Pupils, Curious, Insistent, Accusing Sparks Of Questions Continued To Light Up And Fade Away Like Fireflies Flitting About On Summer Nights.

Turkey Has A Very Young, Dynamic, Curious Population. In Europe, Facebook And Twitter Are Mostly About Sharing Daily Experiences While For Turkish People, Social Networks Are Political Platforms.

Sometimes I Feel I Have More Faith In European Ideals Than Some Of My British Or French Friends. For Them, It's A Financial Burden. For Me, Europe Is Primarily About Values, About Fundamental Rights, Freedom, Women's Rights.

I Am Very Worried About This Concentration Of Power, And It's Not Only Because Of Erdogan. We Have The Ballot Box, But We Don't Have The Culture Of Democracy. The Government Says: You See, We Have The Majority, We're Entitled To Do Anything We Want. But That's Not Democracy, That's Majoritarianism.

In A Normal Democracy, You Protect The Individual From The Excessive Power Of The State. In Turkey, Power Elites Try To Protect The State - As If This State Were Fragile And Needed Protection - When In Fact, It's Too Powerful Already.