Suicide and Politics

A Tale of Two Suicides and Politics of Public Grief in Turkey

Turkish society remains divided over how to react to victims of two suicides. One is idolized as a martyr, the other is treated as a footnote.

Abdullah Ayasun

9 min readJan 21, 2022

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Bahadir Odabasi. The painting by Istanbul-based Italian artist Gianluca Constantini.

Abdullah Ayasun

Written by Abdullah Ayasun

New York-based journalist and writer. Columbia School of Journalism. 2023 White House Correspondents' Association Scholar. Twitter: @abyasun

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