Cover

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Yesterday

Today

Tomorrow

Yesterday

The Origins of Forgetting

How Is Indifference Learned?

Orphans, Fathers and Resentment

“Such a Generation We Shall Raise …”

Fascism or Downright Vengeance?

Turkey’s Disorganised Photo Album

Today/Morning

A Woman’s “Unindictable” Murder

“Us” and “Them”

The Hour of “Long Live Our Padishah!”

The Bloodiest Front in Social Projects

A Split-Meaning, Split-Screen Way of Watching: News Hour in Turkey

Goddamn It!

The Grey Daubs of the City: Proving Presence Through Absence

The Mesmerising Vulgarity

Children of the “Zero Problem” Policy: The Expedient and Inexpedient

The Meatballs of “The People” Beat Macbeth to Death

Opposite Meanings of the Peace Sign: Kurds and Turks

Official Memory versus Actual Memory

Tomorrow: "What Will Become of this Bridge of Ours?"

Appetite and Hope

Down! Down! Down! Down!

Women and Children First!

Middle Easternisation and the Question “Should We Go?”

The “Safety Valve” that Cannot Be Located

Broken Bridges, New Bridges

Index