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Kodokushi: The Bottomless Pit of the Future
The Silent Violence of Loneliness By Dr. Nurfer Tercan Some deaths are loud. Sirens are heard. People run. News reports are made. Some demand an account, some mourn. Some deaths,…
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The Book That Has Been Read for Centuries
How Innocent Has Dimna Remained in the 21st Century? From Kalila and Dimna to the People of Today: On Rumour, Envy, Reputation and Conscience… By Dr. Nurfer TERCAN Some books…
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The Shoes Remain on the Threshold!
So Whom Did Those Shoes Walk Over? By Dr. Nurfer TERCAN Some ancient traditions do not speak at length. They place an object before a person and fall silent. Leaving…
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Justice Came Out of the Ballot Box
AT THE BALLOT BOX KAZAKHSTAN IS CHANGING NOT A PARTY BUT AN ERA From Nur Otan to Amanat, from Amanat to Adilet: As the Names Change, the State’s Language of…
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Libya Beyond Oil
A Country Between the White Olive and the Black Oil By Dr. Nurfer TERCAN On the coast of Libya there is a tree whose fruit does not darken. All the…
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Why Was the Fish Not Taken Aboard Noah’s Ark?
AN OBJECTION TO THE AGE THAT PUTS EVERYONE ON THE SAME SHIP! By Dr. Nurfer TERCAN Not a Single Fish Was Taken Aboard Noah’s Ark! In the poem “Alabalık ile…
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Remaining Human in the Midst of Chaos
Read yourself: from the noise of the age to the inner order of the human being… By Dr. Nurfer TERCAN Whether it is heard as a command, as a manifesto,…
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“That Black Rubber Shoe Was Too Big”
On the ninth anniversary of Eren Bülbül’s martyrdom, on what remains of a mother’s sentence… By Dr. Nurfer TERCAN A mother’s words sometimes weigh more than all the books of…
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The New Geopolitics Beyond the Heartland:
The Mecca Agreement and the Age of Corridorland Dr. Nurfer TERCAN The world sometimes changes with a war. Sometimes with a technology. And sometimes with a single agreement. To read…
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Four or Five?
Khamsa: The Wisdom of Five and the Centre Our Age Has Lost By Dr. Nurfer TERCAN Humanity did not invent numbers merely to count. Some numbers became, in the memory…