{"id":37309,"date":"2025-03-29T06:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/around-me-in-istanbul-there-is-fear-on-every-face-but-i-see-a-resilience-that-refuses-to-die-carolin-wurfel\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T06:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:36:03","slug":"around-me-in-istanbul-there-is-fear-on-every-face-but-i-see-a-resilience-that-refuses-to-die-carolin-wurfel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/around-me-in-istanbul-there-is-fear-on-every-face-but-i-see-a-resilience-that-refuses-to-die-carolin-wurfel\/","title":{"rendered":"Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face \u2013 but I see a resilience that refuses to die | Carolin W\u00fcrfel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many turbulent years have taught my friends never to make plans. Yet, even after Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu\u2019s arrest, they have hope<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carolin W\u00fcrfel is a German writer based in Istanbul<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I first visited Istanbul nearly 20 years ago, I spoke with an academic who had lived through Turkey\u2019s military coups and political upheavals \u2013 some that had unfolded overnight. He was wise and wary, and though I didn\u2019t fully grasp the weight of his words then, they have stayed with me. \u201cIf we\u2019re not careful,\u201d he warned in 2006, \u201cwe\u2019ll end up under an authoritarian regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For two decades, his premonition lingered, occasionally breaking through the surface. But last week, the erosion of democratic principles became undeniable. Istanbul\u2019s mayor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/24\/ekrem-imamoglu-jailed-rival-turkish-president-could-emerge-stronger\">Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu<\/a>, was arrested on charges of corruption after a court ruling.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/29\/istanbul-fear-resilience-ekrem-imamoglu-arrest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many turbulent years have taught my friends never to make plans. Yet, even after Ekrem \u0130mamo\u011flu\u2019s arrest, they have hope Carolin W\u00fcrfel is a German writer based in Istanbul When I first visited Istanbul nearly 20 years ago, I spoke with an academic who had lived through Turkey\u2019s military coups and political upheavals \u2013 some &#8230; <a title=\"Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face \u2013 but I see a resilience that refuses to die | Carolin W\u00fcrfel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/around-me-in-istanbul-there-is-fear-on-every-face-but-i-see-a-resilience-that-refuses-to-die-carolin-wurfel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face \u2013 but I see a resilience that refuses to die | Carolin W\u00fcrfel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}