Di Kaan Göktaş. Originale: Earthquakes and Dictatorship, del 23 marzo 2023. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. All’alba del 6 febbraio 2023, la Turchia e la Siria settentrionale sono state scosse da due forti terremoti in successione. Sono state colpite seriamente undici città tra l’Anatolia meridionale e orientale e il Kurdistan siriano, dove vivono circa tre…

In the early morning hours of February 6, 2023, Turkey and northern Syria were shaken by two major earthquakes in quick succession. Eleven cities in Southern and Eastern Anatolia and Syrian Kurdistan, home to around 3.5 million people, were severely affected by the earthquakes. The fact that the disaster struck in the early hours of…

I’ll be honest, I used to scoff at the term “citizen journalism.” Why should any average Joe with a Twitter account be trusted with the same line of work for which I’m working on a bachelor’s degree? But in recent years, with the introduction of GoPros, smartphones and accessible encryption techniques, a new kind of vigilante…