Selam Selam It has now been over a month since Deniz Göktaş was detained. I seem to have adopted the phrase “They can’t steal our joy, can they?” as a kind of motto. Even though Deniz used it ironically, even though he was actually making fun of the phrase, it has come to mean quite a lot to me. In Ölü Deniz—Dead Deniz, a pun on “the Dead Sea”—he mocked the way his girlfriend repeated these words like a prayer after every election, and honestly, I am entirely on Deniz’s side.

Hi, (original turkish version below, english version is chatgpt translated because I am lazy af) While trying to study right before my exams — such an iconic phrase, isn’t it? Trying to study. The study loop — I once again found myself avoiding the responsibilities I was supposed to fulfill and being productive for all the wrong things. One of those things is, of course, these blog posts of mine that nobody gives a shit about. No, I am not labeling the blog itself as the wron