YJI students Sreehitha Gandluri and Norah Springborn from the United States, Naz Mergen from...
Category - Perspective
Turkish rape culture is not unlike the rest of the world
ISTANBUL – It’s impossible for a foreigner to truly understand a country’s rape culture until they...
Steaming hot, harsh scrubbing and a splash of cold – our...
ISTANBUL – One of the many gifts the Roman and the Byzantine Empires left us were hammams. The...
Making friends, gaining confidence
ISTANBUL – I‘ve always been a person who was afraid to meet people. I always thought they wouldn’t...
Finding so much in common and why I’ll never eat Iranian...
ISTANBUL – My Turkish friend İpek Eser and I were getting simit, a bread in the shape of a circle...
Visiting religious sites as a non-believer
ISTANBUL – I grew up in a non-religious family and consider myself a non-believer, yet visiting...
YJI’s conference in Istanbul taught me to dare
ISTANBUL – When my editor at Youth Journalism International first approached me about taking part...
The breathtaking beauty of Topkapi Palace
ISTANBUL – Standing outside in the burning Turkish heat and ignorant of where we were going, sweat...