Turkey

FREEDOM OF SPEECH: The opportunity to say something is always very limited, says MODERN TIMES 'regular writer in this essay about different authorities' use of force. Away from today's mass media, an "underground" network of intellectuals has now emerged, including experienced journalists, intelligence officers, renowned professors and politicians.

ESSAY: The ceiling height has suddenly become dangerously low – it is taboo to talk about terror.

Kitchen Ergun: Heroes

GALLIPOLI: The commemorations of the Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey during the First World War provide fertile ground for both nationalism and business.

TERRORIST LIST: One otherwise uneventful late summer day, I received a message in my inbox that I was listed on a Turkish list of alleged terrorists.

Travis Beard: RocKabul

AFGHANSK METAL: The story of the emergence of the first Afghan metal band – and the subsequent fall under the weight of an ultra-conservative society.

TURKEY: The Erdogan government reaches a new human rights low with the requirement of life sentences for 16 prominent civilian leaders.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan: The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Agaci)

TURKISH FILM: Nuri Bilge Ceylan follows up the Cannes winner Winter Sleep with a new drama about credible characters in everyday situations – without the result being trivial.

Halil Karaveli: Why Turkey is Authoritarian. From Atatürk to Erdogan

: The man who founded Turkey as a modern state in 1923 did so on authoritarian terms. Thus, Erdogan and Atatürk are just two cubits out of one piece, Halil Karaveli claims.

Léa Luiz de Oliveira and Nisan Yetkin / Carina Haouchine: I Don't Want to Call It Home / Ululation

: The Edinburgh International Film Festival introduces fresh talent and new voices during this year's festival, while reflecting on Edinburgh's cultural diversity. 

: The international women's film festival Filmmor in Turkey may be seen as a drop in a male-dominated sea, but it is part of a feminist current that is growing in strength and scope.

: Asli Erdogan

: The Norwegian Writers' Association's Freedom of Expression Award has just been awarded to Aslı Erdogan – who more than any other author has become the symbol of the catastrophic development in today's Turkey. She refuses to give in despite persistent harassment, persecution and imprisonment, and still insists that the only solution to lasting peace is through reconciliation.

: When we thought we had seen everything, Turkish authorities began to swing to new heights.