I have learned not to blow Eurovision out of all proportion. However the victory which was gained by Susana Jamaladynova – by her stage name Jamala – is beyond getting the first place in a competition or singing a song in mother language in European stage. I could not sleep the night I heard what happened […]
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Emre Seven
Turkish Philologist Film Critic and Columnist. He was born in 1988 in Samsun, Turkey. He graduated from Hacettepe University British Language and Literature Department in 2010. He participated in Work and Travel Cultural Exchange Program in USA in 2009, 2010. He worked as a supevisor in Türkçe Yaz Okulu 2014 which was organised by Yunus Emre Institute and YTB of Turkish Prime Ministry. He has been working for Ankara University Turkish and Foreign Languages Research and Application Center Samsun Branch as an instructor of English and Turkish Languages since 2011 and he is the head of Turkish and Foreign Languages Deparments of the institution. He writes film reviews and columns for three websites. He is married to Crimean Tatar Pianist Elvina Seven.
Website: http://www.emreseven.com.tr
Jamala’s Victory
Crimean Tatars – The Struggle Of A Nation
It is three o’clock at night. Your front door is being knocked on heavily. Not completely awake, you come closer to the door. When you open it, the soldier who breaks in tells you to get prepared to leave the house in 15 minutes. You are not aware that these are your last minutes in […]
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Western or Eastern, European or Asian, modern or traditional, secular or religious? Having struggled between many opposing sides throughout their history, the Turkish people are struggling on the border of another dilemma nowadays: to go on with the ruling party which has been in charge for the last 13 years or to choose a new party to […]