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Fargo in the Anthropocene: Kasaba or Karaağaç

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  My followers (if there are any) know well my prejudice against Turkish films/series. I politically object to the apolitical and anachronistic nature of today's Turkish film industry(*). After the lightning-fast first 3 episodes of the Turkish series Kasaba , which climbed to the top on Netflix, I paused watching midway through episode 4 because the script started to wobble. I even didn't hold back from criticizing it as "written by AI." Still, I continued from where I left off, and by the end of episode 6, with chills down my spine, I said: this is actually Fargo . Fargo took its name from the town where the events took place. Our series is called Kasaba (Town), but it wouldn't be wrong if it were called Karaağaç. If the character named Kar, who strangely resembles Frances McDormand in her 18s, isn't a nod to Fargo —where McDormand shone as the pregnant police officer—then I'm ready to question my profession of deriving lives from films. It's been ...
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PRAYER IS FORBBIDEN HERE(*) with two bold Bs

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(original publication is 6th July 2024 in Turkish) If someone asked me to describe Turkey in a single sentence, I’d say: “The defeated country of the Cold War.” Our country is still governed by old people who lived through the Cold War and were deeply politicized by it. The economic, political, and social damage that the Cold War inflicted on us could fill volumes. The fact that we still haven’t managed to repair that damage means, in a way, that we never truly emerged from that era. While certain practices and mindsets from the early years of the Republic are harshly criticized as if they happened yesterday, there is a strange silence and indifference toward the far more recent Cold War policies whose effects are still with us today. In the bipolar world of the Cold War, one side represented the “free world” led by America; the other was the godless, atheist communism of the Soviets. Between 1945 and 1991, Turkey stood firmly on the American side against the Soviet Union. And the stro...
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