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1 month ago | 
indexoncensorship.org | Kaya Genç
The alarming escalation in the persecution of Turkey’s media workers is part of a calculated strategy. With the detention of Istanbul’s democratically elected mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on 19 March, the Turkish government has sent a chilling message to the public: nobody is safe, anyone can be arrested, so everybody should take caution. Journalists make up a significant sum among the more than 1,879 detained in last month’s protests, 260 of whom were formally arrested.
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1 month ago | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Antria Demetriou |Jean-Pierre Filiu |Kaya Genç
The protests over the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu are the biggest display of anti-government feeling in Turkey in more than a decade. People are being punished for challenging the country’s culture of silence, but they remain determined to make their voices heard and to close the rift between private and public life. On 29 March, hundreds of thousands gathered at Istanbul’s Maltepe beach area – and some even say it was 2.2 million.
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1 month ago | 
artforum.com | Freda Fiala |Kaya Genç |Travis Jeppesen |Jacoba Urist
At the 2025 Asia TOPA—Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing ArtsIN A RENEWED COMMITMENT to reconciliation and inclusive recognition, Asia TOPA, Australia’s triennial focused on performance from across the Asia-Pacific, grounded itself for the third time in Melbourne, on the traditional land of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung and Boonwurrung people.
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1 month ago | 
artforum.com | Kaya GençPlus icon |Kaya Genç |Travis Jeppesen |Jacoba Urist
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2 months ago | 
eurozine.com | Kaya Genç
On 29 March, hundreds of thousands gathered at Istanbul’s Maltepe beach area – some even say it was 2.2 million. Waving flags and chanting slogans, the protestors demanded the release of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul who had been detained the week before. On 23 March, İmamoğlu and 47 others were arrested on corruption charges; that same day, the People’s Republican Party (CHP) announced İmamoğlu as its candidate for Turkey’s 2028 presidential elections, after holding a symbolic ballot.
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2 months ago | 
afr.com | Kaya Genç
Kaya GencApr 3, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Istanbulites will not forget March 19, 2025. That Wednesday became instantly infamous when hundreds of heavily armed police detained Istanbul’s charismatic mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, in his home shortly after 7am. News of his arrest triggered a wave of fear across the city.
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2 months ago | 
artforum.com | Freda Fiala |Kaya Genç |Travis Jeppesen |Jacoba Urist
AFTER GUEST-CURATING the 2014 exhibition “The Poetry of Parmigianino’s ‘Schiava Turca,’” Italian Renaissance scholar Aimee Ng joined New York’s Frick Collection as a full-time curator in 2015. Since then, her exhibitions have included “Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture” in 2019 and (with Antwaun Sargent) “Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick” in 2023.
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2 months ago | 
artforum.com | Kaya Genç
Cengiz Tekin, born in 1977 in Diyarbakır, a Kurdish-majority town in eastern Turkey, belongs to the generation of contemporary Kurdish artists who rose to prominence in the early 2000s. The so-called Diyarbakır School included Conceptual artists such as Halil Altındere, who published the magazine Art-ist, and Şener Özmen, a poet, novelist, and video artist who now lives in Chicago. The trio, who studied at Çukurova University in southern Turkey in the ’90s, have collaborated periodically.
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2 months ago | 
newstatesman.com | Kaya Genç
Istanbulites will not forget 19 March 2025. That Wednesday became instantly political infamous when hundreds of heavily armed police detained Istanbul’s charismatic mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, in his home shortly after 7am. News of his arrest triggered a wave of fear across the city. Before he was thrown into a cell in the notorious Marmara Prison, İmamoğlu filmed a last-minute video. From inside his walk-in closet, he spoke out against autocracy and entrusted his “fate” to his “people”.
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2 months ago | 
restofworld.org | Kaya Genç
In the summer of 2013, Gülçin Yildirim, a database administrator, received an invitation for a meeting at an Istanbul chocolate shop with 11 other female coders. They were there to do something about the sexism they experienced in their workplaces. By the meeting’s end, they had formed a group that aimed to connect women in tech to fight gender-based discrimination and prejudice in the industry.
