Perhaps It Took A Stranger

Our Politics Is Very Masculine, Very Aggressive, And It's Very Polarizing. And The Pace Of This Development Has Increased In Recent Years. Erdogan Is, In My Eyes, The Most Polarizing Politician In Recent Turkish Political History.

I See Two Opposite Tendencies In Turkish Society: People Feel Demoralized, They Lose The Interest In Politics And Retreat To Their Private Lives; Or They Become Very Angry And Even More Politicized, And Radicalized. Both Trends Are Troublesome.

Father, I Am From A Different Egg Than Your Other Children. Think Of Me As A Duckling Raised By Hens. I Am Not A Domestic Bird Destined To Spend His Life In A Chicken Coop. The Water That Scares You Rejuvenates Me. For Unlike You I Can Swim, And Swim I Shall. The Ocean Is My Homeland. If You Are With Me, Come To The Ocean. If Not, Stop Interfering With Me And Go Back To The Chicken Coop.

I See What You Mean. It Must Be A Huge Relief, And An Easy Way Out, To Think The Devil Is Always Outside Of Us. (…) We Would Stop Looking For Sheitan Outside And Instead Focus On Ourselves. What We Need Is Sincere Self-examination. Not Being On The Watch For The Faults Of Others.” (p. 257).

The Digital World Is Developing With Such Force And Such A Pace That You Simply Can't Ban Or Control It. People Want To Be Globally Connected.