Status Updates From İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir

“misery meant feeling out of place, in one’s home, one’s family, and one’s city.”

“But what I am trying to describe now is not the melancholy of Istanbul but the hüzün -حُزن- in which we see ourselves reflected, the hüzün we absorb with pride and share as a community. To feel this hüzün is to see the scenes, evoke the memories, in which the city itself becomes the very illustration, the very essence, of hüzün.”