Selected Works

Once a penniless hitchhiker crossing Anatolia, Joschka Fischer returned to Turkey in 2023 as a keynote speaker at the İzmir Economic Congress. Germany's former foreign minister spoke to Independent Turkish about Turkey's place in the world, brain drain, the NATO crisis. Joschka Fischer first came to Turkey in 1990ss with nothing but a rucksack and a plan to hitchhike his way through the Middle East. He was a young anarchist who had sailed around Gibraltar on a passenger shi

Journalist and documentary filmmaker Hasan Söylemez paused his bicycle journey across all 54 African nations to make his first feature-length film. Tenere tells the story of those who must cross the Desert of Deserts just to survive. 20 October 2011. The world watches the end of a 42-year reign through a mobile phone camera. The final images of the longest-serving leader in the Arab and African world enter history while his face is covered in blood, his lifeless, wound-ri