Turkish

Hard to think of something that’s more my jam than this language where you program Haskell by using Turkish grammar constructs.

An enjoyable dive into where all these patronyms and nicknames came from. I could make one for Turkish but where I came from the lakap (nickname) is more common than the diminutive (Hatça = Hatice).

A brief English overview of the dizi Alev Alev which truly was very good and focused on empowering women. I still want to make a supercut at some point of all of Ömer and Ozan’s interactions.

A relatively detailed and quite damning account of what went wrong with Turkey’s earthquake response.

Everything we continue to learn about the very earliest people is completely fascinating.

Beş el vardı direksiyonda, babanın iki eli, Nevzat Amca’nın iki eli ve gören görür, ölümün eli…

I just watched and finished season 1 of Gibi which seems to have been enough of a success for them to quickly put out a second season. It’s a Turkish dark comedy show that you can watch online on Exxen. I already wrote it’s a bit like Seinfeld but with a very dark undercurrent.

https://parisinstitute.org/the-real-academy-in-exile/#ref1

I’ve discovered a hilarious new Turkish comedy show called “Gibi” (translated to As If). The episodes revolve around a group of friends who get embroiled in absurdist situations and have very nasty but eloquent arguments with each other.

The long rumored link between Turkish and Japanese is getting some validation. I’m now also looking into learning Japanese (Chinese wasn’t really doing it for me).

Hanging out on Clubhouse from the beginning made me realize how lacking my Turkish was. I got on the app when Germany came online and I think Turkey launched shortly after that and only then did it kick off in the Netherlands.

The character relations turned into a bit of a tangle so I fired up Miro and quickly charted them out. In the end it wasn’t that complicated but the worlds of Meryem and Peri are very clearly separate.

Given all of the mistakes we could have made picking out Turkish names when you read this article, I think we did pretty well.

I’m not sure whether this will make any sales at all but Turkish Clubhouse made me brush up on my language and I loaded some old vocabulary I had lying around into an Anki deck and workflow. I thought I’d might as well productize it since high quality Anki decks for advanced learners are hard to find.

A lovely interview about the magic bus and the hippie period in Istanbul revolving around the Lale Pudding Shop which is still in business.

A fair part of my childhood was spent in gecekondu buildings exactly as the ones depicted here.

Eerst praten we over van alles en niets.

Translated diary excerpts of a soldier involved in the Dersim Massacre describe a normal kind of horror.

English language critique of Turkish rap produced in my backyard here in Berlin. That’s the way I like it.

A Turkish guy in a van turns the corner tight enough to almost run us over. He then stops and pulls down the window: “Möchtest du mir etwas sagen?”

Finally a proper English language profile of Turkish star rapper Ezhel.

I was supposed to see this play six years ago. Let’s say better late than never. Seen Wednesday, March 20th at the Maxim Gorki Theater.

Ik heb gisteren “Benim Adım Kırmızı” (Mijn naam is Karmozijn) van Orhan Pamuk uitgelezen. Dit is een van zijn grote boeken (samen met “Kar” (Sneeuw) en “Kara Kitap” (Het Zwarte Boek)) van een schrijver die terecht de beste van Turkije genoemd kan worden.