Ahmet Özcan

Common Home: Deepened Democracy

The only thing we may take pride in is not the identities we did not choose, but the morality of becoming Adam. However deep and incurable they may seem, the compassion born of the effort to become Adam will be enough to
12 August 2025

Hope Against Fear: “Hello, My Noble Love…”

First, to revive this diminished society whose honor and confidence have been broken, to restore the usurped state to the service of the people, to make fragmented individuals and communities brothers again… Then, to close the two-hundred-year page filled with fear and
12 August 2025

Open Letter: The Consciousness of Deli Dumrul

I began by saying that we need to think and speak at length about ourselves. As I conclude my letter, I say this: beginning with the state and our esteemed statesmen, let us, as a whole country, put our hats on the
12 August 2025

Open Letter: Enver Pasha; The Great Dream

Apart from the traces that can help us decipher the ‘codes’ of the nightmare we are living through, he left nothing in the name of wealth behind; proved even to his enemies what a commander, a statesman, a husband, a human being
12 August 2025

The Tanzimat and the Paradox of Change

In this context, removing Türkiye from the pincer grip of both the neo-Westernist and the pseudo-nationalist factions—each fundamentally in cooperation with the West—must be the primary ground of both theory and action. In this context, we must begin to think beyond the
12 August 2025

Whose Weapons Should PKK Lay Down?

The disarmament of the terrorist organization named PKK doesn’t mean that the Kurds are laying down their arms, but that they are laying down the sword of the Muslims' enemy. Afterward, the Kurds will wield their own weapons, not those of Yorgo,
17 July 2025

‘I Can Sleep When the Storm Breaks’

All extant social segments from the past to the present like ethnic tribes, political factions, ideological groups, religious formations, and of course, states themselves, are facing a serious threat. While everyone is busy with the revenge of past accounts, the howls of
17 July 2025

Able to Being an Adam in the Age of Inhumanity- KaliYuga

Much can undoubtedly be said about time. However, the Indian conception of time certainly offers a wise perspective rooted in a distorted Abrahamic essence. This perception of time, which is also the origin of the belief in reincarnation-samsara, includes the concept of
17 July 2025